[rocket_surgeron]

It doesn't bother me.

Every single one of my ancestors for the last 3.5 billion years has died. It is part of existence.

50, 60, 100 more years? Great! Then I can pile on knee, hip, back, and wrist regeneration surgeries. Then extensive therapy to keep my brain from degrading. Also new teeth and corneas. Oh and the heart is going to need a lot of work if it starts beating for twice as long as it was designed to. Plus constant maintenance for the skin as it soaks up an entire second lifetime's worth of UV.

Just a never-ending cycle of expensive, likely painful, time-consuming all-consuming patches on the body to delay the inevitable.

Just kill me already.

Maybe eventually they'll find a path to immortality.

That would be even worse. I imagine the joy would drain out of sunsets if you've seen a billion of them, with them being as noteworthy as every time your eye blinks.

[Gigachad]

What if its not constant patches and repair work, but something that slows the degradation entirely so you end up with less health issues up until the point you get cancer and die anyway. But you enjoyed more of that time fitter and healthier.

[powerapple]

I would be very happy if my body can stay young and not necessarily live longer. That's what anti-age means right? Not pro-long your life necessarily, but to live younger, so I don't have to care about my knee problem when exercise.

[Nursie]

> I imagine the joy would drain out of sunsets if you've seen a billion of them, with them being as noteworthy as every time your eye blinks.

So you can imagine that rather than see another sunset, you'd die?

You can imagine a state of being where you become so jaded, so incurious, that nothing can pique your interest any more, that interpersonal relationships would be better off terminated with biological death than continued, that learning, travel, discovery all lose their meaning and value?

Honestly, as with many of these comments, I feel it says more about your present life than those who would like to live longer or indefinitely.

And I certainly know people in their 70s who are not ready to settle down and be fitted for a coffin yet, even if their bodies are starting to seriously disagree. I don't imagine they would turn down the chance of a few more decades of relative fitness.

[pengaru]

It's more about "die young, as late as possible" than live forever

[midoridensha]

>50, 60, 100 more years? Great! Then I can pile on knee, hip, back, and wrist regeneration surgeries. Then extensive therapy to keep my brain from degrading. Also new teeth and corneas.

>Just a never-ending cycle of expensive, likely painful, time-consuming all-consuming patches on the body to delay the inevitable.

So I take it you never visit a doctor or dentist? After all, going to the doctor to get that mole checked for cancer, or getting your teeth drilled to prevent an infection that kills you is unnatural.

[vidarh]

Anti-aging by necessity also means solving the common causes of death and your body falling apart, not just letting them happen but somehow preventing them from killing you.