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Yea, could be. Maybe there is research out here to support that. But you don't really have to be a researcher to realize birth, aging and death are fundamental pillars of all life since a few billion years back. It is human nature to try and live forever, granted. But it was always hubris, and will forever be.

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Fundamental pillars of all life except for things that don't die?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligible_senescence

That some extreme outliers exist, doesn't change the fundamental fact. And the idea that you can somehow graft parts of the DNA of aspen groves, hydra or similar into humans to make them live longer is grotesque (to me, I should add. I accept that I might be a relative lone voice in the science-optimistic desert here)

With enough study, we could conceivably engineer better cells. If we can then implant those cells into our tissues, then we could slowly replace all the 'faulty' cells in our body with the immortal version 2.

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