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Re:Anti-Aging Startup Raises $116M With Bezos Backing by xixixao on Thursday October 27, 2016 @07:53PM (#12811564)
Also, no one is trying for immortality. You will still die, just not from standard health decline. Hack, why not at least try and see what happens, going back to normal dying will be easy (depending on the cure, but most likely).
Re:Anti-Aging Startup Raises $116M With Bezos Backing by BjoernKW on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:27AM (#12813775)
> going back to normal dying will be easy

Depending on the solution, normal dying might indeed be impossible. I remember a piece of dystopian fiction (I think it was an Outer Limits episode) where characters couldn't even kill themselves anymore because nanobots would instantly repair any damage.

Not that this scenario is extremely likely but there might be ramifications we can't think about yet. Immortality after all isn't a particularly well-trodden path.

Re:Anti-Aging Startup Raises $116M With Bezos Backing by TeMPOraL on Friday October 28, 2016 @08:59AM (#12815264)
[Spoiler alert for Black Mirror]

Black Mirror's "White Christmas" covered a similar theme with uploaded consciousness, where the victim obviously couldn't self-terminate in any way.