A Knowledge Hub for Life Extension Advocacy
You would think that the majority of people would support the development of life extension technologies that might help people to live healthier and longer lives; however, quite understandably, the idea of human life extension raises some concerns for certain people.
There are potentially massive changes coming to medicine and how we regard aging and treat age-related diseases in the next few decades. With these changes comes the potential for people to live longer and healthier lives thanks to the life extension therapies that directly target the various aging processes in order to delay, prevent, or even reverse age-related diseases.
However, the realization that human life extension is coming, perhaps even in our lifetime, raises a number of concerns and objections to the suggestion of increasing healthy human longevity. Some of these concerns are perfectly understandable but are often based on logical fallacies -that is, the argument contains logically invalid reasoning.
We talk to many people about aging research, and we encounter a wide range of views and concerns about using science to achieve longer, healthier lifespans, so we have compiled a series of articles that take a look at some of the more common issues and concerns surrounding increased human lifespans.
Frailty in Extended Lifespans
Whenever the topic of increasing human lifespan is discussed, the concern is sometimes raised that a longer life would mean a life spent frail and decrepit. This is sometimes […]
How Rejuvenation Benefits Children and Families
Rejuvenation biotechnology promises several benefits for individuals, but this technology, if thorough and widely adopted, would benefit larger groups of people, including your friends and family. If you are rejuvenated, that’s good for you, but a society […]
Why Rejuvenation Biotechnology Could Benefit You
Part of our job at Lifespan.io is to inform everyone that rejuvenation biotechnologies need to happen, and we’re doing our best to make them happen as soon as possible. Common concerns don’t make […]
The Societal Benefits of Rejuvenation Biotechnology
Rejuvenation biotechnologies promise to bring benefits to ourselves and the people close to us. Most people have no difficulty acknowledging these benefits, but even so, many […]
Are There More Urgent Issues Than Aging?
When you discuss any major issue, sooner or later someone will say that there are more urgent issues than whatever it is […]
Increased Longevity and Scarcity
The discussion of increased lifespans through medical and technological methods of addressing the various processes of aging raises the concern that this could lead to a lack of resources and result in conflict […]
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- Cognitive Biases Effect Support For Life Extension
- Cultural Stagnation, Would it Happen if we Increased Human Lifespan?
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- Learned Helplessness and the Acceptance of Aging
- Logical Fallacies Influence Support For Life Extension
- Lost Motivation Would Result from Increased Lifespans, or would it?
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- “Only for the Rich” Argument Against Life Extension
- Overpopulation Would Happen if We Increased Human Lifespan, but would it?
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- Rejuvenation Biotechnology is Just Medicine
- Rejuvenation Benefits Children and Families
- Rejuvenation Biotechnology Benefits Society
- Rejuvenation Biotechnology Could Benefit You
- Rejuvenation is Not Immortality
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- Scarcity Would Result from Increased Human Lifespans, or would it?
- Society Vs the Individual
- Selfish Wanting to Live Longer or not?
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