I thought that was a very poor allegory. 1. It starts with the humans being deathless, and then death showing up. This is not how things are, all life we know

I thought that was a very poor allegory. 1. It starts with the humans being deathless, and then death showing up. This is not how things are, all life we know of since the very beginning dies. It may well be a "feature" of life in that death is necessary, or at least useful, for life to adapt and grow - unlike the dragon, which showed up after life was already doing fine. 2. It very conveniently and explicitly frames death as an evil black dragon, anthropomorphizing it and pulling it out of the mechanical process that it is into a morally evil villain. 3. The difficulty and novelty of the discoveries we must make and engineering problems we must solve to beat death are several magnitudes smaller in the fable than in reality. It seemed very pandering, and sets up death (and those who propose accepting its inevitability) as a straw man and those who want to beat it as a steel man. I would have been more sympathetic if the black dragon were some illness like cancer, but it seems to be an allegory for death itself. I'm not against research to improve health and slow aging, but I also think that there are much more important and realistic problems to solve than defeating aging.