Readers Digest did a poll and found out this:
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/treder20090429
And here is a graph showing percentages of people from 17 countries who answered, Yes, they would like to “live forever.”
Follow this link to see how the responses broke down along male and female lines.
Obviously, this is not a scientific survey, and it’s also not clear if we can learn anything valuable by asking such an unadorned, unqualified question. It does seem to show, however, that the possibility—and desirability—of a radically prolonged healthy lifespan is taken more seriously by more people than some of us might have thought.
Mike Treder is the Managing Director of the IEET, and former Executive Director of the non-profit Center for Responsible Nanotechnology.
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Posted by eof737 on January 28, 2011 at 1:06 PM
God bless em all…I don’t know why but I can see that some of the highest ranked have a lot of poverty… Perhaps the idea is that if they live longer, things will get better…
Maybe they will, maybe they wont’. Very interesting poll.
Eliz