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[Alizee]

How much money do you think it would cost to prolong life by 2040-2070

In today's' equivalent amount, and it's purely hypothetical

[lemonhead]

I can't even venture a guess. Also, I think you'd have to specify how long the treatment(s) would prolong life and what the resulting quality of life would be like.

I took an online python class last year on coursera (it was a really good, by the way) and one of the professors mentioned a conversation he had with his young son about a inventing a 'magic pill' that could reverse aging to the physical equivalent of 14 years of age. They determined an appropriate amount to charge for the pill would be $100,000. I thought that a bit low.

[niner]

... a 'magic pill' that could reverse aging to the physical equivalent of 14 years of age. They determined an appropriate amount to charge for the pill would be $100,000. I thought that a bit low.

Are they kidding? There are cancer therapies that cost three times that, every year, and all they do is maintain life in whatever crappy state you were already in!

If all you want to do is prolong life in the 2040-2070 timeframe, I don't think it would necessarily cost all that much. Let's say 10-100K. The further out you go, the cheaper it should get. If you're looking for some serious rejuvenation or organ replacement, that might run higher.

[Bogomoletz II]

Do you mean the costs needed to discover a cure/treatment or the cost of buying it from the individual's perspective once it's already on the market? The latter is unpredictable. Do we even know if we're talking about a pharmaceutical treatment or something else? As for the former, here's a quotation: "What people don't realize is that with enough research money properly focused -- $50 billion dollars, some experts say -- human aging and the terror of disease can likely be halted. With a trillion dollars (the world's wealth is over $200 trillion), human death can be halted in 10 years time."
Source:
http://www.huffingto...y&ir=Technology

Edited by Bogomoletz II, 21 April 2014 - 11:01 AM.