I don't get the responses to the current Reader Poll regarding immortality. If you answer yes to the last question, does that mean you don't want *any* help living longer than you would naturally? Because that means most people don't get to live very long (hope you didn't have any vaccinations, because that probably helped you). For most of recorded history, the average life expectancy seems to have been around 30 (it still hovers around this in some parts of the world). Better nutrition has helped extend lifespans in the industrialized world, but direct medical intervention is a big factor as well.

So if you're one of the 28 percent of the respondents who choose the third option, what does it mean to you? Will you accept any medical help in prolonging your life? If so, up to what point? Mensekemeser suggested in Chat that the third choice means that you're happy to live to the current lifespan (somewhere between 75-80 for most industrialized countries, I think) -- but this is really about double what seems to be humanity's "natural" lifespan.

For those who answered the second question: how long is long enough? Is it until your quality of life degenerates?

Ste "Living forever through not leaving my house" phen