Why should we defy aging?

Why should we defy aging?

Aging kills people and by and large it kills people really, really horribly. Furthermore, it kills an unbelievable number of people: roughly 100,000 people a day worldwide. Overall in the world, roughly 150,000 people die each day and about 2/3 of them die of age-related causes. Of course, causes that young people, more or less never die of. In the industrialized world, it's more like 90 percent of people that die of age-related causes and as I said, most of them die really horribly - aging is really bad for you. Now, that's really bizarre, that one would actually ask the question, "Why should we defy aging?" Because we all know that we should defy cancer and atherosclerosis and Alzheimer's and diabetes, and so on, and there's no argument about it. People appreciate that these things are bad ideas, bad things, and it's a medical and social duty, and humanitarian duty to put serious effort into developing effective ways to defeat these problems. Now aging is simply the sum of all those things, plus a few things that we don't call diseases, like for example decline of immune function and loss of muscle mass and gain of fat mass - but still, the same applies, it's just the sum of all these aspects of aging that we already don't like.