I AM NOT SURE THAT if we lived so much longer, we would be any more satisfied. Now that we live twice as long as we did a century ago, we still aren’t content with that entire extra life. Rather, we seem to be even more obsessed with death. If we live to be 120 or 150 years old, we will fret about why we can’t live to 300. The quest for life extension is like chasing a mirage: nothing will ever be enough short of true immortality. And there is no such thing. Even if we conquer aging, we will die of accidents, wars, viral pandemics, or environmental catastrophes. It may be simpler to accept
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