My telomere is longer than yours...

[R_C]

So for a couple hundred dollars you can find out your <span style="text-decoration: underline">&quot;biological age&quot;</span>, which , if greater than your chronological age, may mean it's time to start working on that bucket list.

But if the technology ever gets to the point where your life span can actually be calculated, who would want to know when they are going to die anyway ?

And how would one control for things like lifestyle choices, car accidents, jealous partners and so on ?

[johnnycakes]

Re: My telomere is longer than yours...

I believe I read that scientists recently had extended the telomere of a mouse lengthening its life.

The telomeres in each cell determine how many replacement cells your body can make. When the telomere runs out of changes you start dying.

Extending those replacement processes will be one of the many technological advances coming like nanobot therapy, gene therapy and cell and organ cloning that will extend human life to unimaginable lengths.