KI4MVP
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They won't have jobs to retire from, either.
Edit: This broaches the subject:
Would you want to be immortal? I mean literally live forever. Would you choose to "kill" yourself?
At that point...would you go to heaven? We would have already been living there, right? Every need is provided to us. There are no sick, there are no poor. No suffering. No war. Access to anything we want at any time. We will have experienced eternal life. We would be our own creators.
Are we God?
This shit is crazy.
Even if aging and all diseases are completely cured, you won't live forever because people will still die because of various other reasons including accidents and murder. Then there's the larger issue that the universe hasn't been around forever and won't last forever - this last part is trivial to prove, photons are tiny units of energy - when stars emit photos, they travel in all directions, including directions where there is nothing to absorb or reflect that energy, thus energy is constantly leaking from the physical universe (at the speed of light).
Still, it'll be a massive breakthrough if the arbitrary 115 year or so limit on lifespan was permanently removed, especially considering if people's bodies stopped falling apart just because time passes.