The nearer-term future, though, need not be so bleak. The immediate benefit of prolonging life is to keep loved ones alive for more time. The endpoint is inevitable, but as the Greek philosopher Epicurus noted in his Letter to Menoeceus, death should not be feared because we never meet it, since “when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
I feel, oddly enough, that the author was not as committed to this thought experiment as they could have been.
A million years is way too long for the evil that might lurk in the hearts of man.
Loved reading this thought experiment