You're absolutely right, obviously. And I'm sure that if your children developed some terrible illness, you wouldn't want to use any pharmaceuticals to keep th

You're absolutely right, obviously. And I'm sure that if your children developed some terrible illness, you wouldn't want to use any pharmaceuticals to keep them alive longer, because - as you say - the disease might get them in the end anyway. "Stuff that makes you not die" is, as you point out, obviously worthless to everyone.