<story><title>Anti-aging stem cell treatment proves successful in early human trials</title><url>https://newatlas.com/aging-frailty-stem-cell-treatment-human-trials/51867/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hohenheim</author><text>A better way to put is that, without death we wouldn&amp;#x27;t have progressed as a race as much as we have done. We need new people with fresh ideas to come to top, take higher roles and make radical decisions. People living longer will stay in power longer and keep the status quo alive. In a longer stretch, conservationism, which grows like age, is an impediment for innovation and progress, IMHO.</text></item><item><author>keymone</author><text>you&amp;#x27;re welcome to die whenever you want, just don&amp;#x27;t speak for the rest of us.</text></item><item><author>m3nu</author><text>Let&amp;#x27;s hope he&amp;#x27;s right. Life is a cycle and without death the world will be a very boring place.</text></item><item><author>faltad</author><text>This comment on reddit (and all the subchildren) shines a different light on that study: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;78f3wg&amp;#x2F;antiaging_stem_cell_treatment_proves_successful&amp;#x2F;dotd0ep&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;78f3wg&amp;#x2F;antiaging_s...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crusso</author><text>If we were immortal, the birth rate would decline as people worried less about continuing through progeny and more about continuing through their own lives.&lt;p&gt;How many wars do you think anyone would want to fight if we didn&amp;#x27;t have an endless streams of the young who are willing to die on the battlefield?&lt;p&gt;How many murders are committed by people over 30 vs under?  How many people die in car accidents after 30?&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s something to be said for having a world dominated by people who are mature and understand the value of their own lives.</text></comment>
<story><title>Anti-aging stem cell treatment proves successful in early human trials</title><url>https://newatlas.com/aging-frailty-stem-cell-treatment-human-trials/51867/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hohenheim</author><text>A better way to put is that, without death we wouldn&amp;#x27;t have progressed as a race as much as we have done. We need new people with fresh ideas to come to top, take higher roles and make radical decisions. People living longer will stay in power longer and keep the status quo alive. In a longer stretch, conservationism, which grows like age, is an impediment for innovation and progress, IMHO.</text></item><item><author>keymone</author><text>you&amp;#x27;re welcome to die whenever you want, just don&amp;#x27;t speak for the rest of us.</text></item><item><author>m3nu</author><text>Let&amp;#x27;s hope he&amp;#x27;s right. Life is a cycle and without death the world will be a very boring place.</text></item><item><author>faltad</author><text>This comment on reddit (and all the subchildren) shines a different light on that study: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;78f3wg&amp;#x2F;antiaging_stem_cell_treatment_proves_successful&amp;#x2F;dotd0ep&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.reddit.com&amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;science&amp;#x2F;comments&amp;#x2F;78f3wg&amp;#x2F;antiaging_s...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Gatsky</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not sure about this argument. You could manage the issue in other ways eg enforced fixed terms for jobs.&lt;p&gt;Also, it&amp;#x27;s difficult to predict how immortality would affect human psychology, let alone how the technology would work. Perhaps we will be able to &amp;#x27;freeze&amp;#x27; someone in their mid to late twenties, at some optimal point of physical health, maturity and risk taking behaviour.&lt;p&gt;I personally don&amp;#x27;t think we can take the very old and keep them alive forever. This will almost certainly result in a permanently sick state requiring constant therapy to maintain. The chance of getting cancer will approach unity at some point. Not exactly the ideal of immortal youth.</text></comment>