There is a long and proud history of writers promptly losing all common sense whenever asked to take on the topic of changing the current situation for aging, a

There is a long and proud history of writers promptly losing all common sense whenever asked to take on the topic of changing the current situation for aging, age-related disease, and death. If you take a utilitarian view, every problem other than aging is secondary to some degree, usually a very large degree, just by looking at the number of people negatively affected, and the level of suffering involved. Not that people who don't write for a living appear much better than the writers on this topic. If you ask most people, they proudly declaim their willingness to age to death on the same schedule as their parents. Not that they'd follow through on that declaration were the technologies of rejuvenation available when needed, since they go to the doctor when sick, or when suffering age-related disease, and do all they can with what is available. People in general are, for the most part, profoundly irrational and/or hypocritical when it comes to aging and the near future of real, working rejuvenation treatments. They won't help to make these technologies a reality, they decry the idea, and they will run in their multitudes to use the therapies when they arrive.