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This article is pretty sweet. It doesn't strike me as entirely out of the realm of possible occurrences that humans will figure out a way to stop the aging process entirely sometime in the next few centuries, which in some ways would be great. In a lot of other ways, I think it might suck.

Regardless, this article should have been called "How long would the elves in Lord of the Rings really Live?" or maybe "If you were Super Mario, and you ate one of those flower things, how long could you go without falling in a hole or getting crushed by huge pillars of stone?"