Americans are wary of enhancements that could enable them to live longer and stronger

[Nelson Vergel]

...a pair of Pew Research Center surveys on life extension and human enhancement show that many U.S. adults are not ready to embrace these possibilities, whether it be in their own lives or in society more broadly.

In our 2013 survey on radical life extension, 56% of adults said they would not want to live at least 120 years, which is considered the current upper limit of the human life span. Likewise, roughly two-thirds of adults in our 2016 poll on human enhancement said they would not want a brain chip implant to improve their cognitive abilities (66%) or synthetic blood to augment their physical abilities (63%). American adults were somewhat more open to the possibility of using gene editing to reduce the risk of serious disease in babies, with 48% saying they would be interested, but a similar share (50%) said they would not want to use the technology on their baby.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan...ould-enable-them-to-live-longer-and-stronger/

Comment: I am sure these surveys would have very different results if they asked members of ExcelMale.com

 

[PAUL-E]

Comment: I am sure these surveys would have very different results if they asked members of ExcelMale.com

Live longer healthier and improve the quality of your life, I know I'm interested

 

[ERO]

My guess is that a some of this is due to the perception that these treatments just prolong your life when you are already in your 80s or thereabout and a lot of us that have seen our parents age don't necessarily want that.

I understand that the idea is to prolong your "good" years not your bad ones, but I can see how one might not see it that way at first glance.