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Re:Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up with Depression by manmal on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @12:53PM (#15401860)
Nobody deserves anything. If humans can survive forever, most will (BTW I‘ve read somewhere that your half-life would still be 600 years or so due to serious accidents). Not WANTING to survive as long as possible is IMO pathological thinking. Sure, there are reasons why you would rather not have humans live longer.. but why not long for it?

Also, if you live forever, almost everybody will be able to make a lasting impact on society, sooner or later.

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Re:Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up with Depression by FeteCommuniste on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @01:21PM (#15402129)
This site claims that the average lifespan would be 8,938 years if people died only from "unnatural causes": http://polstats.com/#!/life

Obviously this would depend greatly on where you live (much more likely to be shot in the US or Mexico than in Japan).

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