Why are you so afraid of death?

Death is doing a fine job and has so for billions of years.

The only long-term outcome of immortality i can imagine is either Drukhari-style depravity, where you chase more and more fucked up pleasures because anything else you already did 10 million times in the last couple thousands of years - or something like I have no mouth but I must scream - you can live forever but the AI also tortures you forever.

Literally cant think of a positive outcome.

You are right that dynasties exist but that doesn’t mean they are static - the transfer of power of this to the next generation needs to happen.

Every king has its time to rule and then he dies.

Sure an evil dictator is just one person but they can inflict untold billions of suffering.

Just imagine if Hitler (or insert your favourite evil person) would live forever. Do you really think they are going to let go of power or care about anything else but achieving their goals?

We literally feel the ill effects of the previous generation not passing power onto the next (boomers) right now - imagine that was a perpetual state of society forever.

And while we are speaking of “killing” kids - what about the unborn ones? What motivation would people have to procreate if they live forever? Create more people to share more and more limited resources with, I don’t think so.

I think you haven’t quite thought this through; it’s not as easy as “death bad”.

Now I’m not saying we shouldn’t look for cures of diseases and suffering but striving for immortality is not desirable (tbh it will most likely take the form of “we’re gonna upload your consciousness into a computer” anyway, not physical immortality)