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Just thinking about the societal implications of this. For example, death is one of the few things that causes turnover in the Senate.

It seems ironic that the mechanism here (killing off old cells) enables humans to live longer, thereby possibly enabling these same humans to case society to age.

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Life extension will be horribly dystopian unless we can also find ways to restore neuroplasticity and enable re-learning-- a kind of "second childhood." Otherwise it'll be a bunch of immortal old curmudgeons sitting on top of society saying "get off my lawn!"

Personally I'm not sure I'd even want too much life extension without neuroplasticity restoration and quality of life extension. I'd rather be dead than walking dead.

I'll take immortality and term limits, please.

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