The end of work + the end of aging ...

[Warpy]

2. The reason this planet is groaning under so many of us

is because we've stopped losing half or more of our children to disease, not because selfish people are living too long.

Aging sucks, but it does ready you for the inevitable. It came as a relief to my mother at 94 and my dad at 89.

The last thing I would wish on anyone is immortality in perpetual youth. Suicide would become a sacrament.

Oh, I know nobody under 50 is going to believe that. But having, say, 200 years of regret over stupid things you've done to build up, you'd probably have had enough. It would come far sooner if you'd been issued the kind of body I was.