It was a long time ago, but I remember reading Larry Niven's "Tales of Known Space - Safe at Any Speed" about a future society where aging is stopped. All I rem

It was a long time ago, but I remember reading Larry Niven's "Tales of Known Space - Safe at Any Speed" about a future society where aging is stopped. All I remember was that safety became very important even to the point where a vehicle protects a passenger after being swallowed by a giant bird on an alien planet. It made need think that it would kind of suck that one would only die in some kind of unnatural death like an accident.