I'm split on this issue (solving death).
On one hand, I'd like to live forever for there're so many things I'd like to do and one lifetime is a bit limiting. Also, I'd like to see my loved ones never die.
But...
The way of the world is such that the new generation is taking the place of the older one, filling up their roles and the positions of power and influence.
Imagine being born in a world where exists a class of people that is accumulating capital and power for a thousand years. What are your chances of success? What would your position be? What would the world look like?
As long as we are living in a world with limited resources, and as long as there are human beings starving to death as I type this - solving death is the ultimate hubris.
Looking forward to the next installment. Cheers!
Thank you very much for your comment. I totally agree that this is a complex topic with very mixed (split) opinions also within oneself. As a society we might face the challenge to work out a solution how to deal with the technical possibilities to extend the life of an individuum to a considerable amount, in the next years. Beside the everlasting challenge of mankind how to organize the distribution of limited resources (water, oil, energy, food) this might be an issue of coming across with an overextended resource (lifetime). Problems may not only arise for the society (“class of people accumulating capital and power over a thousand years”) but also for the individuals. Based on the fact that at this very moment, the number of suicides is already higher than the number of victims of violence is pointing in another, but less problematic direction.