alt Hacker NewsOffered a pill on your deathbed to go back to the vitality of your 20s, you'd take it.
Given the opportunity to give this pill to a dying loved one, you'd take it.
The only reason you think that being death-optional is bad, is because the only longevity-related media you've ever consumed has doomer outcomes - because positive sci-fi doesn't sell.
No it’s because it would enable the very worst people to live perpetually. Despots and dictators are bad enough but luckily they all die eventually.
Also it cheapens the time you have. Why care about anything if you live forever