Immortality Pill rejected by two thirds of Americans study finds... and let's be honest I think the majority of the rest of the world will probably be relieved about that..
A new study has found that the majority of Americans would choose not to take a pill that would make them immortal. Roughly 900 people were asked whether they’d take a pill which would allow them to live forever at their current age. According to research published in the Journal of Aging Studies, only around 33 per cent of the people surveyed said yes.
Around 42 per cent said they wouldn’t take the pill, while 25 per cent said they weren’t sure.
Interestingly, as PsychNewsDaily states, the people fell into three separate age categories, but all voted in a similar way.
There were young people between the ages of 18 and 29, as well as seniors with an average age of 72 and an older bracket with an average age of 88 who all took part.
The figures were consistent across the three groups, but they did have differing opinions on which age they’d ideally be frozen at – with the 88-year-olds, perhaps understandably, stating they’d like to be frozen at a younger age than they were.