>>81154852>>81155448>>81155570aging exists so the world isn't overrun by creatures and humans who are insanely senile and rotting on the floor still breathing, everything needs to die eventually. your brain, forget about your body, does not ever repair from the aging process, in fact we barely have enough research on the healthy adult brain as-is.
immortality sounds like a curse, imagine you hit 150 and they hook you up to a machine so you're still breathing but your brain is effectively a vegetable. did you know that as you sleep, your brain severs connections from neural pathways that are unused? and autistic people (not the 4chan type) have an issue with self pruning which causes them to have meltdowns at things like loud noises?
https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/children-autism-have-extra-synapses-brainhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9671112/and as you age this process ramps up leading to memory loss
https://www.bu.edu/kilachandcenter/cognitive-decline-in-old-age-may-be-linked-to-increased-pruning-of-brain-cell-connections/and alzheimer's disease is caused by plaque buildup on axons
https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/alzheimers-causes-and-risk-factors/what-happens-brain-alzheimers-diseasewhy would you ever want to live past that age? death happens to everyone, you will never, ever get a free pass to avoid death. it will happen to you, your family, to strangers, your pets, the plants that filter your air, everyone and every thing that's alive
