It’s the same story repeated. I got so tired of listening to people complain I wrote a blog about it 3 years ago so I could hopefully quell the noise.

“Death gives life meaning”

“It’ll only be for rich people”

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2017/03/28/stories-that-should-...

This is a situation where it's important to believe what is actually true.

If aging can't be stopped, then it's appropriate to accept your mortality and not be in denial.

But if aging can be stopped, then it's appropriate to fight against your mortality and not accept it.

Accepting your mortality has always been the correct answer because (and only because) we always have been inevitably mortal, and denial about mortality has been bad because (and only because) it's detached from reality. However, once the reality changes and it becomes plausible for the people living at that time (perhaps this time has already come for people who are still young? who knows) to become effectively immortal, then refusing to accept mortality stops being denial and becomes a healthy attitude.

I attribute it to mortality denial as well as general anti-technology sentiment across the board.

Maybe we're atheists that accepted our own mortality.

Would you accept your mortality if you were standing on a track in front of an incoming train, and could live longer by walking sideways?

Aging is, in principle, is engineering problem. The sooner and more people start to work on it, the sooner it might be fixed. Maybe too late for us, but maybe for our kids, or theirs, or whoever's- doing work towards curing aging is a gift to whichever generation fixes it.

(Not that it's as binary as 'just fixing it', of course, but you get the idea.)