We should live forever!

This round's topic: We should live forever! 

One thing we know to be true - when something is good, more of it is better! Like coffee, sun and heroin. Ergo: this precious gift of life must be all the more valuable if we could live forever!

As scientists get scarily good at herding stem cells, lengthening telomeres, and hacking DNA, this messy business of death looks more and more negotiable. Why go through the indignity of decrepitude if one might not have to?

So much investment goes into making an educated, fully functional adult, knowing all that effort has a time limit on it does seem a little bit of a bummer. Do I get a refund on my HECS debt if I'm too old to remember anything from second-year on the Spanish civil war? Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Don’t make me do the essay…