I'm not going to hide it. I want to live forever. I don't think there's anything wrong with that or that it's "unnatural" or "unethical." People often act offended on this topic. "Why are you so greedy? Why so selfish?" But to them, I ask, why is it so bad to want to live? To who do I owe such a huge debt to that I am obligated to die?
One of my personal beliefs is that it is within our lifespans that we will figure out how to prolong our lives indefinitely - aka
biological immortality. Note this is different from actual immortality where you can't die at all; here we are just referring to dying of age.
At the same time, I don't believe there's such thing as a "natural death." It is not necessary to die, and not all things do, even in nature.
Jellyfish and
lobsters are both good examples, where their bodies never really deteriorate no matter how old they get. Some will get technical and say that lobsters die of getting too large or their shell becoming too much to molt, but that's beside the point, which is that they don't actually lose vitality or youth over time like we do. Their actual cells do not decay, and they don't become weaker or less able over time (in fact, they continuously get larger and stronger). That to me is the goal and the definition of biological immortality.
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