The move would extend her 36-year House career and continue to freeze her would-be California successors in a long-standing holding pattern.

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    I’d be ok with at least an age cap. No one can run after they’re 65. Leave governing to those who will be alive to see the impact of their policies.

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      The problem with an age cap is that us younger generations are going to be the first beneficiaries of life extension medicine. We’d need to remove/raise the age cap almost immediately.

      I fully expect some of my generation to break 120 and still be as spry as a 40 year old. We’ll be the outliers and guinea pigs, but I view the potential benefits as worth it.

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        Where on earth did you get this idea? Life expectancy has literally decreased. I see no reason to expect a drastic increase of it.

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          Not for the tail end of Gen X. And the only reason you kids have a lower expectancy than we do is cause you guys got even fatter. I’m in good shape, and all of you kids that are in good shape have a higher life expectancy than me.

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              I read a few studies that came to that conclusion a few years ago. I’d love to provide the source, but I have lost the ability to find anything remotely historical with any of the search engines in the last year or so.

              As far as the tech angle is concerned look up Kurzgesagt’s video on life extension tech, they have a few, but the one that discusses senescent cells is the most important. Senolyitc drugs have been on the market for a year or two now, so we have a way of preventing cancer, which is the current disease that takes out most people, with a side benefit of forcing new cell growth.