Originally Posted by BFT3K

Americans don?t want to extend their declining years....



Would you like to live forever? Probably not. According to a new survey by the Pew Research Center, most Americans don?t want to stick around much longer than current life expectancy. Sixty percent don?t want to live past 90. Thirty percent don?t want to live past 80. People who make lots of money don?t want longer lives any more than the rest of us do. Nor do people who think there?s no afterlife.

What?s driving our misgivings? Much of it is uncertainty about what kind of lives we?d be living. Would medical progress keep us feeling young? Or would it only stretch out our declining years?

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