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AFP
August 6, 2013
Most Americans do not want to live beyond age 100, and a poll out Tuesday suggests many worry that anti-aging technologies may end up being a luxury for the rich.
The survey of more than 2,000 people by the Pew Research Center’s Religion and Public Life Project sought to probe the nation’s views on the prospect of living longer lives.
Already, aging adults account for a growing share of the US population. About 41 million Americans are 65 or older, making up 13 percent of the population, up from four percent in 1900.
By 2050, that number will rise to 20 percent, according to Census Bureau projections.
A majority of US adults (56 percent) said they would not “choose to undergo medical treatments to slow the aging process and live to be 120 or more,” said the Pew report. A total of 38 percent said they would.
With the average US life expectancy at 78.7 years, more than two thirds said they would like to live longer than that, somewhere between 79 and 100.
The median, or midpoint, for ideal lifespan was 90, or about 11 years longer than the current US average.
