I don't know how long I want to live, only that I want to live for as long as I still want to live.

I voted "I want forever". This is because I curious to see how our ivilization will advance. You know, when will we give up religion for logic, what scientific discoveries we will make, what will we create... stuff like that.

Give me another 50, with an option...

Other.
Until I get bored - but that would be a long time, because there is so much to see and do out there that I'm not sure I would ever get bored of exploring and learning new stuff.

I could die today and be okay with that. I’ve had a wonderful life with no regrets or at least very few. Age is just a number and has no meaning in my life. So going today, tomorrow or whenever...makes no difference to me.

And I’ve seen enough of humanity and people/societies evolving...honestly...I’m not impressed.

I don't want to know. I just want live my life the best I can in the present, and that will help determine whatever comes for me in the future.

Would depend a lot on the quality of life also. Lots of good books and stories related to this topic.

I would still like to see much more of this planet and hopefully space travel before my time is up. I've always been positive about the possibility of seamless space travel. Hopefully one day, sooner than we think this would be possible. We're in this era where technology can only become more advanced. Sometimes I think we're the remnants of what's greater out there. I also sometimes think we had possession of greater technology at one time. What happened? I wish I knew but I remain positive and youthful.

Quality over quantiy! When my life is shit, I'll go. Don't let me die uneasy.

Based on current death rates, if age were no concern everyone would live to about the age of 700, based on the curent chance of death being 0.6% per year.

I would like to see my grandkids (4, 10 & 12) become young adults, and perhaps see them married, if they choose to do so. I must admit however, that I worry about where the world is headed, on so many levels. I couldn't stand losing any of them before I go. So the precise answer is, another 15 or 20-years.

Given the group this is posted in, I picked forever... But, if I live forever, does that mean I'm invincible and invulnerable? Cause that would be cool

I'm happy with the reality of what is life. I've had a great life and willing to quit while I'm ahead. Curious about what will happen in the future but that may not turn out all that well. I think I'd rather concentrate on make life a better place today than living forever.

On a side note: an interesting fictional read on the subject, "Immortal Man" by Simone de Beauvoir.

The part of us that is real, that has conscious awareness and free will, that part lives on forever through a succession of future people, of other organisms, of pure consciousness itself.

To hope for eternal life as a particular individual is a dead end street IMO. Our sense of being a particular person in a body is an illusion, a temporary role that depends on a specific memory trace. Think of yourself a thousand years hence—you wouldn’t be the same person at all. None of your old memories would mean much, even if they were still there. The illusion of bodily selfhood is temporary. At some point ego will have no purpose.

From the song "Nowhere Fast" by The Smiths: "...And when I'm lying in my bed/I think about life and I think about death/And neither one particularly appeals to me..." I truly don't understand folks who say that they're glad that they're "glad to be alive." It just doesn't seem like the enormously fantastic benefit they make it out to be. Not that I exactly want to die right away; I've BEEN there, and it doesn't feel good. But the way I see it right at this moment; if I go, I go.

When coming up we heard do not trust anyone over thirty!

As we age it seems the changes of our bodies, thinking, and acceptance ether grows or stay stagnate through out their life times!

Seems a very few escape the major aches and chronic pain of aging.

Hence the human has always had a lifespan of around thirty eight years.

It is only in the last and this century the average life span has increase to beyond 65 and over foe a majority of us!

Why do you think the government choose the 65th year as the year for us to retire?

Science and medical breakthroughs have changed the average lifespan beyond the know norms!

Me, I will ride it out till I can not wreak havoc upon those around me even while suffering from chronic pain!

LOL!!!

If I have the choice to pick, why not forever. Surely I'll run out of things to do but I don't know when. And a being such as me would have a lot to offer to the world.

If I didn’t have family responsibilities, I could leave tomorrow. Didn’t ask to be here, shouldn’t have to stay.

I like being alive.

Non-existance to never have to exist.