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The notion that immortality is a good idea fades with age. Youth is more important, because as you age opportunities and options vanish and ailments and limitations arise. If you can give me immortality, health and my youth, I may reconsider.

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That's why what most research is trying to extend healthspan and lifespan. All drugs that are in clinical studies today are either trying to push the old part to later in life or just targeting what is making us old so we don't well, get old. The goal is to maintain that youth.

Pretty much everyone who is getting frozen want youth rather than prolonged old age, they think a cure for aging will eventually happen.

I'd certainly rather live 100 years with a 20 year old body than 200 years with a 90 year old one.

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