Britons are asked to rate the quantity of life vs. its quality:
A large number of Britons would be prepared to give up sex if it meant they would live to be 100, according to a survey Friday.
The Mori research found that 40 percent would pass on the passion for longevity, although far more women (48 percent) were willing to make the sacrifice than men (31 percent).
Of course, maybe some of those people don't think sex is important to the quality life in the first place, so it's no trade-off at all. And the pollsters didn't specify that all 100 of those years would be relatively healthy ones. Interestingly, a whopping 94 percent would not give up friends and family for those extra years.
What would you give up for a longer life, or take for a shorter one, for that matter? Would you trade 10 years for fabulous wealth? How about 15, or 20? Would you like an extra 20 or 30 (in relatively good health) if you could have no money except to meet your basic necessities? Would you rather have 40 more years from this point on, most of them fighting serious illness, or 20 more in excellent health? How would your answer change were 25 and five?
I'm not sure where I come down of some of this, but my thinking is certainly different from what it was when I was, say, 21.
