>>54070716I mean, most wild animals probably share that thought about humans.
In the wild, if you get even slightly too old and feeble, you typically get ate. If you're too big and dangerous to eat, then you're an apex predator, and you die to starvation or disease instead.
Death from organ failure means you're LONG out-living what nature expects your lifespan should be, or else your life was so incredibly harsh compared to your expected circumstances that they failed early, environmental toxins, physical strain, wrong diet etc.
Everybody talks about anti-aging science, telomere regeneration and all that, but they never talk about how so many of our parts have a hard expiration date on them no matter how young you are at the cellular level. Every person that lives to 200 is gonna have dentures, full stop. We don't regrow teeth, and even the best maintenance plan only slows not stops or reverses the damage.
Every central neurological injury, even as a young man on steroids they never heal fully back.
Cataracts.
COPD.
There's no way to live forever without extensive bionics or finding ways to force body parts that don't repair to start doing so.
