> The only real question in my mind is whether we are the first generation to live forever, or the last generation to die? Really? Right now life expectancy fo

> The only real question in my mind is whether we are the first generation to live forever, or the last generation to die? Really? Right now life expectancy for people in their 80s is increasing by substantially less than a year each decade, and that rate is slowing: http://i.imgur.com/7J2BPqA.png http://i.imgur.com/7J2BPqA.png Your hypothesis is that rate will increase from abou 0.6 years per decade (down from ~1 a decade ago) to 10 years per decade, within 20-40 years? This is what that looks like: http://i.imgur.com/4eS78VU.jpg http://i.imgur.com/4eS78VU.jpg Immortality means a slope like those yellow lines. You're saying the curve is going to either turn up sharply like line A or line B, and there is no chance of line C continuing for the next few decades. In other words, something dramatic would have to change. But there are no current indications that this is likely.