Fight Aging!

A common objection to engineered longevity is that long lives will mean boredom. People leap directly in their minds from "longer life" to "immortality" and postulate all sorts of unrealistic outcomes. From Depressed Metabolism: "The argument that immortality leads to boredom can take two forms; empirical and logical. In the first case we would observe immortal people and conclude they will become (increasingly) bored. Clearly, this approach is not possible. A milder form of this approach would be to observe very old people and to extrapolate from this to immortality. But this does not seem to be very promising. Many old people are still very curious and involved with the world, even when struggling with aging-induced medical complications. Perhaps there is a tipping point after which old people will get bored. Perhaps not. ... The assumption in [logical] arguments is that an immortal person will exhaust all there is to live for. There are at least two problems with such a line of reasoning. The first problem is whether such a state of affairs (a fixed person with finite possibilities and experiences) logically follows from immortality. Why not assume there will be infinite possibilities and experiences (even if the person stays 'the same') instead? The other problem is that such a line of reasoning reflects an impoverished view of life, emphasizing just quantity and progress."

Link: http://www.depressedmetabolism.com/2008/09/25/immortality-and-boredom/