If you're really worried about that, have you considered coming to China? The government keeps religion in check, and science is pretty free (although plagued with plagiarism); China's already trying to genetically modify children. If a technology with the potential for indefinite life expansion was found, there's no way the ruling class would let anything stand in the way of them prolonging their lives indefinitely.

I would consider going anywhere that could offer proven, real, relatively safe life extension.

A choice of leaving the country of my birth or leaving this mortal plane... I know which way I would go.

> I think it's perfectly possible that, within my lifetime, significant or indefinite life extension could become possible.

It's about as likely as having a sentient AI anytime soon. So, you can rest assured it's not going to happen despite all the hype.

> I think it's perfectly possible that, within my lifetime, significant or indefinite life extension could become possible.

It's weird that everyone believes this stuff will happen within their own lifetime. Like, no-one goes on about how life extension is going to happen 300-ish years from now, it's always conveniently within a timeframe where the speculator could personally become immortal.

Just like every loon in history has insisted that the Apocalypse is definitely, certainly going to happen within their own lifetimes too.

With the rate medical tech is advancing, almost as fast as computing, 300 years from now might be within our lifetime just by other means of extension.

We have many active and healthy 50, 60 and 70 year olds. This is unheard in cultures before the modern era.

> I think it's perfectly possible that, within my lifetime, significant or indefinite life extension could become possible.

We know so little about the human body that I find this claim very difficult to substantiate. We're only up to the task of extending 25% of mice lifespans, with no end in sight to resolving the adverse side effects of aging in humans so life extension doesn't become a horrid, protracted end of life grinding agony.

If our entire economic system was switched from the banking system having the first crack at newly-issued capital to the healthcare industry with special emphasis upon gerontology-oriented sectors (with the near-infinite demand for healthcare, the inflation could be impressive), then I would grant a possible doubling (which counts as significant when stacking up against "indefinite") breakthrough in the next 2-3 decades. But I would really like to see the pro-SENS argument we're really that close to such a magnitude breakthrough of extension with intact, restored vitality to 20's range.

Ironically your wish to "live eternally" kind of sounds like something out of the bible ;)

Not really, I said indefinitely. There's not really such thing as eternal.

For instance - in under a billion years the earth is likely to become too hot for liquid water to exist on the surface, likely seeing the end of (most) life on earth. Beyond that, much/most of the solar system gets destroyed when the sun goes red-giant. Unless interstellar travel is commonplace by then, it's pretty final.

Oh, come on. The reason we balk at interstellar travel these days is because it'll take thousands of years to get to the nearest star with current propulsion technology. But thousands of years is still far less than 1B years. If we're still around in several hundred million years and the Earth is getting too hot, and we haven't invented warp drive yet, then of course we're going to build a bunch of generation ships and take our chances in interstellar space. By that point, it really shouldn't be that hard to build such ships that are reliable enough to last indefinitely, powered by fusion reactors.

Exactly, which is why I will live forever...