>>12589167>we become the last generation that expires before anti-aging becomes a thingI can tell you that in the 70s, they said the same thing
in the 80s, the same thing
I read articles in the 90s about "oooooo the first immortal person has *already been born* and we'll have the technology!"
Now, literally the same rhetoric in 2021. It hasn't changed, we are closer but its not a "one-and-done, we either cured aging or we didn't" binary thing. We will very slowly cure parts of aging, and the first people to get that treatment will die of aging just +20 years better than average, for example. Heart disease, cancer and/or neurological disorders will kill people off readily. We'll eventually grow replacement organs, which can help solve the heart issue a bit. You'll still have a chance of just dying from a random heart attack, though. Then we'll get better at some anti-aging things we didn't realize/encounter at first. We'll get better at treating/preventing cancer, and neuro-aging diseases like alzheimers, but several generations of people will have to go that way pretty terribly before we can figure out if we cured it or not.
Cancer will always be a problem. New cancers will pop up. New immune disease. New neurological issues. We may find at 150+, you end up with a different type of alzheimers-like disease never really seen before.
Stopping aging != stopping death, and may not even prolong life by long enough to matter. In fact, age-defying medicine will probably just offset the years lost from not exercising and eating a proper diet most of your life, as that time of damage is accumulative, and your life span may be roughly the same as your fathers as the poor lifestyle cancels out the anti-aging.
Rest easy knowing you aren't anywhere close to the first generation to "live forever"
