Death is too inconvenient and makes for much to drastic a loss. Time for it to go.

We’re getting far better at extending a human’s ability to live longer however that does not also extend to life issues so that we now have healthier shells with degraded brain capabilities leading to ever increasing costs associated with health care.

And by and large people forget that ALL technology resides in a social setting. Ultimately society decides the benefits or otherwise of technology — would keeping people alive longer whilst others struggle to survive be deemed appropriate? Should we aim to extend the life of ‘us’ whilst failing to address the waste problem and environmental degradation that our behaviours have thus far, wrought?

Would increasing the living age actually pose an existential threat to the species? If our behaviours are anything to go by, it is not too far a stretch to suggest that rather than assist the species, longer living people might accelerate its demise due to an unwillingness to address our resource use. We’ll simply starve and poison ourselves to death far quicker, perhaps?
Marcus Barber