Until we figure out immortality, everybody that is born will die. The most effective strategy currently available for preventing deaths, then, is to put an imme

Until we figure out immortality, everybody that is born will die. The most effective strategy currently available for preventing deaths, then, is to put an immediate moratorium on births, capping the future total number of deaths at the current world population. If you're going to go the utilitarian route, you need a more complex utility function. Otherwise you end up with really weird badness.