I'm cool with transhumanism. Serious opposition to death strikes me as... naive or short-sighted, something like that. If we attain immortality, we'll have to stop reproducing or otherwise sacrifice quality of life, in which case what's the point? The only caveat would be interstellar colonisation, but I don't think we're particularly close to that right now, except possibly for things like Project Orion which even so don't fix everything.
I suspect many people will choose to die eventually anyway, like yourself. I'd probably play around with it for a while (supposing we find a way in my lifetime anyway), but ultimately I don't think I'd want to live in this universe forever.
Religiously, I have an obligation to keep living for as long as I could be aiding Christianity (Edit: although if my death would be a greater help, I'd do it). I suspect many Christians feel the same way.
It's not opposition to death
qua death, but being given a ticking clock and even then not having even a warranty that you have that much - voluntary suicide is fine, ferex.
And from my 'official' Catholicness, I recall the idea is more along the line that you live until God decides you shouldn't anymore, but that might be a Catholic thing.
Also, by the same metric, what's the point of reproducing if you can live forever?
If the longevity pill was invented in our lives we would see the earths richest only getting it. Do we really want a bunch of compulsive, vain, hoarding rapists that smoke high quality methanphetamines and cuban cigars running the world?
We need to fucking fix the criminal issues, our moral compass is fucked as a whole, or we could have serial killer terminators waltzing around shooting up the population for fun.
Before you say this is an insane notion. So are thoughts of immortality, and if you did live forever... wouldnt you try everything at least once?
Immortality would make you a god, and we all know how that turns out.
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And your proof for that happening is...? It didn't happen for Penicillin, it didn't happen for vaccines, there is no particular reason why it would happen this time. Even if a dose costed a jillion dollars for some reason, you'd need to pass clinical trials, and signing up for an untested drug with potentially lethal side-effects is hardly a thing that makes sense for any random billionaire who wants to live LONGER, which means some random people who are willing to be experimented on would end up getting that for free.
Your idea of rich people is somewhat amusing. Most people, no matter the income bracket, are not criminally insane; the distribution is skewed between the brackets, as psychopaths do well in competitive environments, but even psychopaths are not *crazy* in common parlance - they are very self-interested, amoral, and easily bored, but not kill-happy.
If anything, being able to live however long you want unless you die violently would make people less likely to randomly kill people. There's this new thing called legal system, and if that fails, vigilante justice and self-defence in the case of the person being attacked.
Tangentially, I think you're muddling the terms here - 'full' immortality is pretty damn unlikely; even with brain-inna-jar with a remote-controlled body, you can still destroy the brain, or if it's electronic, the machine.
Why would you want to try everything? It's not like the offer is time-limited if you can live forever - and even then, again, most people are not criminally insane. Claiming that anyone would just go up to their neighbor and shoot them in the face is the kind of misanthropy that is rather easily disproved by the majority of people not doing just that.