Defeating death just feels larger than human politics, it reaches into the entirety of biology unlike who The Favorite Person is at the moment.
Death is great, frees up limited resources, removes old farts who think they know how future for everybody should look like without actually having a good reason why.
Lets expand reasonably at least around out solar system first (meaning say >50% of human population not on earth), and then start looming into immortality.
Show me 1 truly powerful person in the past who wasnt an arrogant self centered a-hole.
We talk about enslavement of whole human race potentially forever in worst possible case. If that is something you can ignore, well I can't.
It's a lot easier for "truly powerful person" to keep "his subjects [from] actively resisting" than you seem to think.
>> Syria is at 40% opposition, 40% pro-government, and Assad has been hanging on during an active civil war for 11 years:
> This illustrates my point
How so? The implication of your GGP comment was that any powerful person with that much opposition should not be able to survive, but the example shows a powerful person with more opposition surviving.
Putin and Trump are not political enemies though, they are criminals. No dietary supplement can offset the premature deaths caused by Putin in Ukraine.
I don't think either of these are recognized by the DSM-5.
Is it though? Who wants to live forever? Even Lestat got bored.
You mean the fictional vampire character?
It's like saying "even the tooth fairy got bored".