You have not offered any argument, you have simply said "if you don't see it my way, you should reconsider".

Why should I reconsider? What about your view do you feel is better than living healthier for longer?

The way I see it, if you take advantage of doctors at all you are already competing against your own ideals.

We have made huge leaps in health such that even if we die at 80, our lives will have been much more healthy and active up until that point.

If I can be healthy and active until 80 and then die at 100, then I will do that. It isn't immortality they are after, it's just more high quality life.

There is nothing graceful, or more respectable, about succumbing to death because it is the social norm at a certain age. I will cling on to life until I can no longer.