Arguments against ending aging and why they're wrong

[king_of_apathy]

As I'm sure you can tell, I'm feeling very passionate about the potential for a longer human lifespan. Yet, oddly to me, many people don't feel the same. A Pew Research poll on the attitudes of Americans towards the possibility of living longer found that only 38% would want to live decades longer, and that 51% thought it would be bad for society

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[king_of_apathy]

Yep, I will take whatever opportunity to live as long as I can, so far as I can do it in good health. A healthy life is all I need for me to consider it worthwhile.

As for the economy, we can never know for sure how an economy in an ageless society would work until it's tried, but I suspect that the pros would far outlive the cons. Take an average human lifespan of around eighty years. The first near two decades are spent as a dependent where you're relying on your parents for care and the government for schooling. Then the last decade and a half would be spent in retirement, drawing a pension and spending increasingly more on medical care.
Only just over half are lifespans are spent in work, when we are actively contributing to the economy with taxable incomes. But with far longer lifespans, we'd spend far longer in employment, therefore contributing far more.
The trend over the past century is for menial farm and factory work to be increasingly automated, so there won't be the need for a large 'underclass' workforce to keep those things running.

I've heard that 'death and birth are needed for human evolution' a lot and I just don't buy it. I think it's one of the coping mechanisms people use to try to justify old age and death to themselves, as if it served some useful higher purpose, when the reality is much more likely that we'd all be better of without it. Far from being a hindrance, I suspect that longevity is our next step in society's evolution.
For a start, that thing about most breakthroughs being made by young people at university level isn't true.
https://www.livescience.com/16911-scientific-breakthroughs-genius-aging.html
I see no reason why people who live decades or even centuries longer won't continue to dream, create and adapt.

The good news is we do have a nearly endless universe to populate, and no reason not to continue procreating, so I count these issues as solved already!