Something I run into occasionally is people comparing the idea of healthy life extension to the idea of faith in an afterlife, or similarly, making the assumption that anyone interested in superlongevity believes that it is somehow a “given”.
Well, superlongevity is not a given. It certainly won’t be for a long, long time, if ever, since each time someone crosses a new “upper limit” of human age, new challenges at keeping that person alive are going to present themselves. And remember that aging is only one challenge sentient beings face; surely in the future there will be new and unanticipated threats to sustaining our lives, but for now, age-related death is an immediate concern for so many that it can scarcely be ignored. Supporting longevity research is a way of addressing this concern, and this sort of support has nothing to do with blind faith.
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