8/6/2013 – Living to 120 and Beyond: Americans’ Views on Aging, Medical Advances and Radical Life Extension

The possibility that extraordinary life spans could become ordinary life spans no longer seems far-fetched.

Yet many Americans do not look happily on the prospect of living much longer lives. They see peril as well as promise in biomedical advances, and more think it would be a bad thing than a good thing for society if people lived decades longer than is possible today, according to a new survey by the Pew Research

Read the full article at The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.