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I disagree with you Hooah. I think it would only be a terrible toll on those who are too weak to handle it. If I knew I could live forever, quite honestly I would work so damn hard. Know why? Because now I can fulfill my big desire to learn everything. I want to learn everything, but in my 90-100 year time span I only have enough time to specialize in one field and perhaps along the rest of my life take intermittent breaks in my job to take classes in my later years to expand my learning. If I could live forever... I could see humanity become god and see us reach the point of terraforming entire planets far off in the future. It would be glorious and I would welcome it fully.
Of course, that would only be for those who are very committed. There will be always those who will spend centuries sitting around being lazy. If I knew that I would live forever, I would do that. Spend a century being a nerd, another century being a jock, and so forth. But eventually I would ask myself what Im doing on this planet if Im just wasting time. Of course people would say they are tough enough to handle it, but would they actually be tough enough? We will never know, for there wont be any cure for death in the future. At least within the next century. First we got to cure AIDS and Cancer.