Department of Psychology and Counseling, The University of Texas at Tyler, United States of America.
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, UT Southwestern Medical Center, United States of America.
J Aging Stud. 2021 Jun;57:100931. doi: 10.1016/j.jaging.2021.100931. Epub 2021 Apr 12.
Biomedical technology holds the promise of extending human life spans; however, little research has explored attitudes toward life extension.
This survey asked young adults (n = 593), younger-old adults (n = 272), and older-old adults (n = 46) whether they would take a hypothetical life extension treatment as well as the youngest and oldest age at which they would wish to live forever.
Age cohorts did not vary in their willingness to use life extension; however, in all three age cohorts, a plurality indicated that they would not use it. Men indicated a higher level of willingness to use the life extension treatment than women. Younger-old and older-old adults indicated that they would prefer to live permanently at an older age than younger adults.
If a life extension treatment were to become available that effectively stopped aging, young adults may be likely to use such a treatment to avoid reaching the ages at which older cohorts say they would prefer to live forever.
生物医学技术有望延长人类的寿命；然而，很少有研究探讨人们对延长寿命的态度。
这项调查询问了年轻人（n=593）、年轻老年人（n=272）和老年人（n=46）是否愿意接受假设的延长寿命治疗，以及他们希望永远活到的最小和最大年龄。
不同年龄组在使用延长寿命治疗的意愿上没有差异；然而，在所有三个年龄组中，大多数人表示他们不会使用它。男性比女性表示更愿意使用这种延长寿命的治疗方法。年轻老年人和老年人表示，他们更愿意永久地活在比年轻人更老的年龄。
如果有一种有效的抗衰老的延长寿命治疗方法问世，年轻人可能更愿意使用这种治疗方法，以避免达到年长群体表示他们更愿意永远活在的年龄。
