[zerocrates]

If the pathway to where you're looking to go runs mostly through a fight against age-related degeneration, why not pitch it that way and just avoid the controversy that "ending death" attracts as a concept?

Who's out there handwringing against fighting, just to pick a random example, dementia?

[stale2002]

> why not pitch it that way and just avoid the controversy that "ending death" attracts as a concept?

There are both drawbacks and benefits to the controversy of "ending death".

You have mentioned the drawbacks, but the benefits are that it attracts the interest of the individuals that care about the most important problem in the world, which is specifically this problem of ending death.

[JoshTriplett]

That's the idea behind marketing campaigns like "healthspan". It's a trade-off. It's very easy to get dragged into a pivot that focuses on one specific condition rather than mortality and age-related degeneration in general.

[rbanffy]

Aging is a set of degenerative diseases that are 100% fatal and affect 100% of the human population.