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by pnut 4447 days ago
Maybe one day we'll extend natural life expectancy so far that suicide and drugs are the primary causes of death?

Is immortality the presumed goal?

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Immortality is always the goal. You can't have a goal without having time with which to achieve it. Assuming you never stop wanting to have goals, you should never want to die. Given that death is something people tend to accept rather than wish for, almost everyone wants to be immortal.