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"Knowing you are going to die!"

In about 20 or so years scientists recon that by taking blood samples of you, they will be able to tell you:

How long you are going to live

Wever you are going to live a healthy life or not

If you are going to catch any disese

are you going to get cancer and die from it

how tall you are going to be

will you loose your hair colour


Now personally i wouldnt like to know anything that is going to happen to me in the future, because if i knew that i was going to die in like, 5 years time, i wouldnt be able to have a good time because i would spend most of the five years worrying about it...
I personally think that it is a stupid idear to carry out these experiments, because not many people would like to know when they are going to die...

I would deffenetly not want to know but then again i don't really mind dieing going up to heavens going to pretty sweet

MEH

Phft..

No they wont.

Well it obviously cannot tell if beards is hiding round the corner waiting to hit me with a spade, but they will be able to test for the obvious things, like cancer...

But it's a real fear.

And then what happens when every new child is born perfect because their parents chose all their genes?

Whitestripes wrote:
> Until you can't get life/health insurance or employment because
> scientists say you will develop a serious condition when your 35.

But that would mean a chance in medical confidentiality laws, and the ability of a company to introduce mandatory testing, again that would be very difficult to do, and insurance companies in America have already been warned that if they try to do anything like that then they face a massive legal battle.

Given that most of the public would not support it, the insurance companies would be in a very tricky position, not to mention that anyone not employed because of the results of a test - if they were not actually ill at the time - would be able to take an employer to court for discrimination in most cases.

Good point. Star Fury lies.

Star Fury wrote:

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> These tests are really just predicting the future, health problems are
> best faced as early as possible, so really it's useful research.

Until you can't get life/health insurance or employment because scientists say you will develop a serious condition when your 35.

In about 20 years or so, and less in some cases, scientists may very well have cured or developed treatments for those same things which could end a persons life. In some ways it's useful, if a person will get cancer then their doctor can look for early signs and that increases survival rates no end, same goes for things like heart disease, knowing they could have it will more than likely encourage a person to adopt a healthier lifestyle so they may live longer.

These tests are really just predicting the future, health problems are best faced as early as possible, so really it's useful research.

That wouldn't work though, it couldn't be worked out because the length of your life depends on lots of uncontrollable factors, which cannot be predicted, for example, catching contagious illnesses or the like...