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by pinguin3 1080 days ago
Only if they don’t live. Doing anything in life has risk: flying, driving etc
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People in their twenties have an annual chance of dying of about one in a thousand, so effective anti-aging would give an expected lifespan of about a thousand years.

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

Based on the rates of various types of accidental deaths, you could extend that quite a bit by avoiding dangerous drugs and and living in an area where you're unlikely to get shot. If we figure out really safe self-driving cars, that'll make a big difference too. In much of Europe you can already get the same effect by taking public transport everywhere. Air travel is quite unlikely to kill you.

https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-mortalit...

Put all that together and a 10,000-year expected lifespan looks pretty achievable.

And some cells do not reproduce (neurons, etc), so you have to keep them in good shape, except this is impossible. For example 1/3 people are infected with Herpes virus which stays in their neurons.

In addition some cells reproduce only a few times, often only during youth.

And there is sometimes involution like in thymus.

those cells reproduce at some point, I imagine that if aging can be reversed new cell growth could also be stimulated.
> "those cells reproduce at some point,"

No some cells never reproduce, for example motor neurons.

> "I imagine that if aging can be reversed new cell growth could also be stimulated."

I have a hard time to imagine how to replace a up to one meter/yard long cell with sometimes hundred of synapses which is surrounded by cells such as astroglia and microglia that are equally important.