[Poll] Biological Immortality - yay or nay?

[SvennoJ]

LemonSlice said:

SvennoJ said:

It's also in our nature to prolong life. If it were upto nature we would still be eaten by predators, die of the plague and have an average life span of 30. Childhood could be much longer, you could choose to age if you like that challenge. Why not have the peace of mind of a 70 year old with the strength of a 30 year old.

Selfish and greedy, living nightmare? Or take on a long project and see it flourish.

That "life span of 30" you mention was due to high infancy and childhood mortality rates. If you lived to adulthood, there was a very good chance you'd reach 60 and beyond. And that's at any point in human history.

Anyway, the things you've said in this thread... wow, it's all exceptionally disturbed and delusional. I can't believe you have a Miyazaki avatar. Have you seen Tales from Earthsea? It deals exactly with this subject.

What's so great about ageing. Out of my grandparents, first died of cancer after a long battle, next one after the third heart attack she pleaded to let her go, taken of the respirator in the hospital, next one eventually brought back from the hospital to die at home after losing most basic functions earlier already, last one also brought back home to slowly drown in his own lung fluids. My mother has early alzheimer's, father spells of extreme dizyness.
Yet biological immortality is bad?

People always fear the unknown or make up reasons why what they can't have must be bad. Humans must be the best there is, so immortals always have the wish to die, or immortality is a curse, or some other catch.