[thomastjeffery]

Right, but if you can prevent death from each of those causes, you run out of death.

If grandpa's liver is failing and he gets hit by a car, he didn't die of old age. If the deadly car accident is prevented, and then he dies of liver failure, then he didn't die of old age. If his liver is replaced, and he dies of heart failure...

Most people are dying from cancer and cardiovascular issues. If we cured cancer next year, then we would see a huge drop in people dying from old age, at least until the heart failure caught up to them.

Basically, that would introduce latency without changing bandwidth, and the total mortality rate would only be delayed temporarily.

[rbanffy]

Mortality rate will be always 100% until we manage to escape this universe and move to a newer one. That or learn how to massively decrease the amount of entropy. Something about light, perhaps.