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Setting aside the actual physical and technological limitations here, I think such immortality would create a whole new kind of population problem. Population growth, in some sense, would explode. Or, more realistically, you’d have two classes of people: those living, and those “immortal,” those who could afford immortality, and those who were poor and would have to die permanently.

That said, I think this is all a pipe dream and totally infeasible.




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