Arvin Ash

Biological Immortality: Could you still die? (2018x44)

Udgivelsesdato: Dec 03, 2018

Biological Immortality: The top 3 biggest causes of death are in order: Heart disease, Cancer, and Lung disease. These and other diseases kill as many as 2.5 million people per year just in the United States. What if we could cure these and all other biological diseases, along with the “disease” of old age, so that you would become biologically immortal? This is not such a far-fetched idea. With medical advances accelerating, some scientists are saying that this is very possible within the next 40 years. And if you became biologically immortal, how long would you live before you died in an accident, homicide, suicide, or war? For the sake of fun, let's take a look at that. If you could not die from any biological sicknesses, like heart attacks, cancer or diabetes, then pretty much the only things that could kill you would be accidents, murder, suicide or war. Let’s look at how long you would live if this was the case. Note - Most of the stats I discuss below are for the United States, which is an advanced and mostly safe country. If you are living in most other countries, you would likely die sooner, except for the case of homicide, which is a bit lower on average in other countries.The stats I am using are used by American insurance companies to calculate life insurance rates. So lets look at your chances of dying if you were biologically immortal: In a flood – you would live to be almost 40,000,000 years old if the only thing that could kill you was a flood. Lightening – You would live 12,000,000 years before you died of a lightening strike. Dog bite – 9,000,000 years Airplane crash – 770,000 years Drowning in a pool – You’d live for 450,000 before you died of drowning in a pool Fall from stairs – 140,000 years Killed in a fire – 120,000 years Killed by gun – 30,000 years Killed in a War – 20,000 years Murdered – 13,000 years Now we are getting to some significant numbers. Died in a Car accident – 9,000 year