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tinfoilhatteryesterday at 8:08 PM2 repliesview on HN

I assume you mean that dying is the most terrifying pat of the natural human experience. Also, I'm not sure why you infer that me thinking death is a natural part of life, means that I'm happy or eager to die.

There are many reasons that people living forever would be a problem for society, the most obvious being an ever-increasing population.


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s7atictoday at 3:57 AM

Fertility rates are below replacement, which means that population sizes are convergent. A decreasing population is a more likely future scenario for many western countries, even if human lifespan was indefinite.

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datakingyesterday at 9:25 PM

> the most obvious being an ever-increasing population

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