Question: could we ever live forever?

Jordan Kirby answered on 5 Mar 2019:

Hi Susan!
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I think i remember you asking this yesterady in the chat (i saw your second question after and i responded in the last 15 seconds so you might not have seen it!)
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So as i said yesterday due to modern medicine we are now living alot longer than we use to (we all dont die from rose thorn stings anymore!) we have overcome this barrier by using things such as antibiotics to treat bacterial infections which would had previously been fatal.
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So now we are living well into our 70s and 80s we are beginning to find new problems with living to such an old age, such as neurodegenerative diseases (diseases of the nerve system and the brain) such as alzheimers and the shortening of things called Telomeres (think of them like the plastic bits on the end of your shoelaces, they keep the shoelaces held together and stop them getting damaged, but after they are removed or break the shoelace becomes frayed and damaged. The telomeres do a similar thing for your DNA but they eventually become too short (they get shorter each time your cells divide) and you start getting some DNA damage).
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I have no doubt that these problems will eventually be cracked as we did in the early 1900s with the first antibiotics! Modern medicine continues to develop in leaps and bounds and these problems are just our next barrier to living longer.
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I hope that answers your question! if you have any other questions dont hesistate to ask me 🙂