If you marry an immortal man, you know you aren’t his first priority or his greatest love. He loves himself first, and then comes everyone else. Usually, people like this are too self-absorbed because the purpose of their life isn’t to achieve anything great - it’s simply to stay alive for as long as possible, as they are afraid of death.
Immortality is cowardice disguised as “scientific progress.” I’m pretty sure we won’t see any kind of immortality solutions this century, but I think we’ll be able to eliminate genetic diseases. We might even cure cancer - though I’m skeptical because many companies have incentives not to cure it. We need significant investments in biotechnology to make progress in these areas.
The only good thing coming out of the immortality race is the increasing investment in biotech. As a side effect, we’re learning more about the human body.
Just to clarify: immortality means living forever, not that you cannot be killed or harmed.
I don’t think the human body can sustain more than 100 years of life naturally. Immortality will likely be achieved by transferring consciousness from an aging body to another, possibly lab-grown body or something shady - who knows?
My perspective comes from someone born into a lower-middle-class family that hasn’t yet reached the middle-middle class (not upper, because we don’t own any real estate - sad, I know, right?). I think the world is better off with fresh, new ideas, and wealth should be cyclical. The new generation should govern the world, not people clinging to life because they fear death. Humans were not meant to live forever. Imagine warmongers living indefinitely - their paranoia and greed would never end.
Not everyone is worthy of living forever. There’s so much self-importance in that idea. Why should you live forever? How would it benefit humanity?
We’ve seen that when someone stays in power too long, they often grow greedy and refuse to relinquish it, which is harmful.