Look, if you want to die, go right ahead. But leave me and my family out of it. We love our lives and each other and I'd like for us to live as long as we can. Proclaiming your disdain research in this field because "death is good" without elaborating on that (and when the obvious conclusion is the exact opposite, see: The deaths of children with cancer, the deaths of world-changing intellectuals like Von Neumann, the eventual deaths of every good person/pet that you know), does not come off in a flattering light for you.
The fact that you think dying is good is a feeling. It is based on an article of faith - it must be, because you cannot make coherent arguments for the necessity of death that aren't either based on faith or other issues that are solvable in ways that don't kill people.
I'm not "just being offensive". Death is harmful, and insisting it must happen is perpetrating death. If you insist this, you are perpetrating a harmful ideology that interferes with research into senescence and therefore contributes to suffering.
You're afraid, I get it. So am I. We'll all die someday. So will everyone and everything, at some point. It's not good or bad. It's not a matter of faith or ideology. It's scary and we don't want it and we fight it with everything we got. That's also a part of being alive.
I'm just concerned with the possibility of us "winning over death" and how it would transform everything. It's not another cure for an illness or another 100 years to live. It's no one ever going away without someone else making them. For better or worse. That's not a part of life. That's an entirely different existence.
I 'm totally with you. Most of human misery, suffering and malice is due to decline, loss, grief and death, and the awareness about them.
People who claim it would be bad to live long are either coping or had a chance at a decent life or believe it would somehow cause unsolvable problems.
