Very interesting. They have been able to basically change an adult skin cell into a "forever-young" skin cell.
If you had the chance to basically stop aging in its tracks, would you?
Forever? No.
But say, if it was 'drink this, once a year and you'll stop aging for that year, after which you can drink another one the next year...' then possibly.
Since I know where I'm going when I shuffle off this coil, I'm not so concerned about dying. My main concern is that I die too young leaving my family to fend for themselves before they should have to.
I want to live long enough to see my children marry Godly spouses and if I'm lucky, I'll get to dance at a grandchild's wedding.
Ray F.
Luke 22:35-38 "Gear up boys, I gotta go and it's gonna get rough." JC
-- Darrell Royal, former UT football coach - "If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em."
Competition for resources would be pretty fierce if a youth elixer becomes prevalent enough to slow or stop aging. It would disastrously accelerate population growth.
Earth can't sustain that much human life. Wait, didn't they make a movie about this? Soylent Green?
If it DIDN'T stop the aging process completely, the human brain would eventually fail to work correctly, and you'd have a whole bunch of 20-somethings with Alzheimer's but with the strength to make then REALLY dangerous.
If it DID stop the aging process completely, I bet it would bring all scientific progress to a halt (I believe you wouldn't be able to learn anything new, because the processes required for learning would be stopped), not to mention the lack of ability to bring a pregnancy to term (how can a fetus "age" to full development as an infant if it shares the mother's lack of aging?), and other potential drawbacks.
So the experiment would be do we live until population pressures kill us, or until our brains fry, or until humanity dies out from misadventure?
Eternal youth SOUNDS good, but would almost certainly include penalties that we can only just barely imagine.
