[antepodius]

Would you accept your mortality if you were standing on a track in front of an incoming train, and could live longer by walking sideways?

Aging is, in principle, is engineering problem. The sooner and more people start to work on it, the sooner it might be fixed. Maybe too late for us, but maybe for our kids, or theirs, or whoever's- doing work towards curing aging is a gift to whichever generation fixes it.

(Not that it's as binary as 'just fixing it', of course, but you get the idea.)