<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Not if I was too far gone with aging to care I guess. But the entire purpose of groups like this is to give human beings much better options than to age like that. If I could be young again instead of in lowered health and functioning from aging and in much improved even perfect health then of course I would want that. If I could upload and have countless adventures and possibilities beyond the aging body then I would want that too if it was reasonably perfected. Wouldn't you? If you didn't would you chalk it up to brain deterioration due to aging?<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- samantha</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 3, 2006, at 6:15 PM, Al Brooks wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV>But when you get to seventy wouldn't you naturally want to see how much longer you can prolong yourself?<BR><BR><B><I></I></B></DIV> <DIV><B><I></I></B> </DIV> <DIV><B><I>>Russell Wallace <<A href="mailto:russell.wallace@gmail.com">russell.wallace@gmail.com</A>></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class="replbq" style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">As things currently stand, I wouldn't. If we get to the point where it's possible to live _and be healthy_ much past three score and ten, on the other hand, that's a different ball game altogether - and nothing in that idea is forbidden by the laws of physics.</BLOCKQUOTE><DIV> <BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><HR size="1">New <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/postman4/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39666/*http://beta.messenger.yahoo.com">Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.</A> Call regular phones from your PC for low, low rates.<DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">extropy-chat mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>