Imagine the safety culture if accidents were the only way to die!
But imagine skills of those bright people who pushed boundaries of mankind into better places, if they could contribute for say 500 years. Like in Tolkien's world elves attained great mastery ie in smithing over millennia of experience.
In any case it would be horrible for mankind, because there is no shortage of Putins and Stalins in general population and they would burn whole world to the ground without blinking an eye to get closer to immortality. No, thank you, death is a great thing for us even if individually most of us are shit scared of it, and various religions trying to tackle this certainly don't help as much as people would like.