Tl;dr: Kill yourself before you turn 80. I hope I die before I get old!
Elderly, who still keep their wit are very important.
They are living chronicles, witnesses of times past gone and often these are times we should not forget or we will need to repeat the history again.
For example like World War 2âŚ
Also, I think, it would be quite reasonable for people to live 300 hundred years, if during the life time the average would be still like 2,3 children per couple.
In the past, after 300 years, probably we would feel, that we have learned and mastered everything we could and life might become boring, but with word ever changing so quickly, it might become too exhausting, but definitely not boring.
Living to 300 years would be great if we had vim and vigor. The reality is, you would be living an extra 220 years in the body of of an 80 year old, and who could endure that?
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It is very unlikely to live extra 220 years in almost depleted body, unless you have a goaâuld sarcophagus to keep you young. (Similar thing was also in the Elysium movie where it also could reconstruct even missing bodyparts.)
Either people learn more secrets of regeneration and put it into action, which means 300 years old would look like 100 years old now and 200 years old might still look like 30 or 40ish or they wonât live 300 years anyway.
It will be all about copying your brain and uploading into something else probably a robot. Your old body will be done .
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Amazing that some people think that chart wonât keep going down.
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Taiwan likely has the lowest TFR in the world as of May 2025
May 2025 Household Registration Statistics:
- Number of marriages in May (different sex): 12,359 (-12.15% YoY)
- Number of births in May : 8433 (-24.42% YoY)
- Marriages Jan~May : 46,030 (-15.8% YTD)
- Births Jan~May : 46,407 (-13.15% YTD)
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Taiwan Number 1!
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The intense competition with Korea continues. 
Guy
Dadâs Army are stepping up to the plate in the UK.
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Very ridiculous situation.
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6139962
A taxi driver mentioned this to me last week I thought he was a bit nuts at the time what was he on aboutâŚ
The government here is just hands off on everything except for hands on the wheel and handlebars.
Honestly these are two MASSIVE fails.
Scooters, cars surpass Taiwanâs population
Registered motor vehicles in Taiwan passed 23.357 million by May
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And thatâs just the registered vehicles.
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Itâs hard to comprehend how many vehicles that actually is. Really nuts but made some families and dealers here very rich.
I estimated before that scooter sales could be billion USD a year here just in Taiwan.
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In some countries (at least one, anyway) itâs guns. Iâm not sure which kills more.
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Fewer births and migration loss. Taiwanâs policies are outdated and the country is heading into a lot of trouble.
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Hopelessly with its head up itâs ass on this.
Also when they say immigrating do they include blue collars who are not really allowed immigration anyway. So the situation could be much much worse than what they state.
The lack of true blue collar immigration leads to the run down towns here with lack of demand for local services.
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Iâm not convinced we are seeing any significant migrant loss. Most of the people âemigratingâ are likely to be citizens who have been out of Taiwan for two years and have had their household registration suspended. Most of them will come back.
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Virtually all the migration is SE Asian workers reaching the end of their 3 year contract and getting replaced, isnât it?
They are not counted. Taiwan population figures only count people with household registration.
So arguably Taiwanâ population is more like 24.7 million and is not declining.
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