The Week contest: Long life

Last week's question: Scientists are examining a variety of ideas about how to slow the aging process, raising the possibility that we could someday live to be 150. What is one reason you and other people should not want to live that long?

RESULTS:

THE WINNER: We would have to wait until we were 75 to have a midlife crisis

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Jonathan Lubow, Randolph, N.J.

SECOND PLACE: Faded, sagging tattoos

Dawn Thaman, Cincinnati

THIRD PLACE: That's how many election cycles!?

Joseph Smith, Huntersville, N.C.

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Boomerang great-grandchildren

Sharon Alwart, Brighton, Ill.

Congress doesn't have term limits

Paul Herriott, Loveland, Ohio

The new retirement age will be 120, and Social Security will be broke

Harold Warren, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

How do you fit 150 candles on my birthday cake?

Bill O'Meara, Bedford, N.H.

150 years of new Microsoft OS updates?

Jeff Tynes, Springfield, Mo.

Jerry Jones will still be running the Cowboys into the ground

Ken Kellam III, Dallas

The divorce rate on first marriages would jump to 100 percent

Dan Rafferty, Allston, Mass.

Don't want to keep up with the Kardashians any longer

Peter Leung, New York City

Who wants to spend so many years looking like Keith Richards?

Kenneth R. Updegrove, Cedaredge, Colo.

The prospect of having to wear diapers for literally half your life

Rick Vagnini, Atascadero, Calif.

We'll have run out of Law & Order reruns

Edwin Bacher, New York City

No one really wants to be older than dirt

J. Richard Gaskill, Los Gatos, Calif.

The Cubs still wouldn't win the World Series

Steve McConnell, Walpole, Mass.

Who wants to spend 100 years getting up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom?

Craig and Lynne Nelson, Pitman, N.J.

112 more budget debates

Sean Frankum, Grovetown, Ga.

Alimony payments

Paul S. Wax, Teaneck, N.J.

Mothers-in-law

Donna Astor-Lazarus, Princeton, N.J.

Nobody wants 100 years of grandkids never calling or visiting

Paul Raff, Santa Monica, Calif.

The angst of not accomplishing anything in your lifetime would take on epic proportions

Bill Kiskowski, Capitol Heights, Md.

Realizing those "damn kids" you want off your lawn are in their 90s

Brent Wilkinson, Campbell, Calif.