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Living forever, artificially.

Given that we can already replace the heart with an artificial pump, filter toxins from the blood with dialysis, and nutrify the blood with IV drips; could a human be kept alive indefinitely with these interventions?

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To clarify, I'm talking about future versions of current technology, which could miniaturized, which perform all of the above functions, and enable a person to continue living indefinitely.

Would the actual cells just stop replicating after time and the human fall apart, or would the continual supply of nutrified, oxygenated and cleansed blood be sufficient to keep someone alive?

 

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  • Asked by AP3
  • on 2011-03-01 11:00:46
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Last edited on: 2011-03-02 16:33:39

Categories: Human Body.

Tags: Life, immortality, artificial.

 

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Jon-Richfield says:

Depends on what interventions you will allow. Will you accept that it is life preservation if it is no longer the same person?  And if you do, then why should a petri dish full of tissue culture not count as life preservation?

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