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Originally Posted by Kafriel
I'd rather die at 75 or so, who'd want to live another 50 years of incessant decay?
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What if you had the body of a forty-year old at seventy-five? Or the body of a thirty-year old? I think your answer might change.
By extending our lifespans we also extend the healthy young and middle age. It's not like they just tack on zombie-tiems to the end of a 90-year-old person's life.
I'm actually addressing this in my novel--it is several thousand years in the future, and through various medical advances and genetic tinkering, people are capable of living to be two or three hundred years old. This has become somewhat "normal" and humanity has adjusted as a result--childhood is longer, adulthood is longer, old age is much shorter. Even those who don't have access to cellular maintenance, the major advancements in medicine mean that even the most common citizen will expect to see a hundred and fifty before they die.