[Danny]

I told myself I wasn't going to dig up any old topics, but then I thought "Ah well, it's only on page 2, and it was only 5 days ago..."

Several people seem to have misunderstood the idea we are discussing here. We are not talking about being unable to die here, we are simply talking about Clinical Immortality, IE no aging. You would still be perfectly capable of dying if you wanted to, or if you were in an accident, or if you were murdered...

I think that this kind of Immortality has the major downside that Overpopulation would most likely go through the roof... On the other hand, people might develop a more (for want of a better word) mature attitude to Death, and accept that at some point, death wouldn't be a bad thing. I don't think, even with Clinical Immortality, that anybody would live past 300 or 400, simply because they would more or less kill themselves... Not necessarily deliberately, but they would start taking bigger and bigger risks in the pursuit of recreation...

As for me: I'm sure I could do with a couple of extra centuries...