Organs working in perpetuity is a little different than bones though, right? But hey, it’s your OP.
I still wouldn’t want to live forever. Human beings aren’t supposed to.
Humans love doing things they aren’t supposed to.
We aren’t ‘supposed to’ fly, go into space, live in cities, drive cars, type on computers and any number of other things we do every day. We aren’t ‘supposed to’ live past about 35 on average, and the list of things we are ‘supposed to’ actually do (have the majority of us die in infancy, die in mob lots from disease, starve, be killed by infections and predictors, etc etc, and generally live short, dangerous lives) is pretty depressing. Basically, that you are typing on that computer and probably will live well into your 70’s or longer is directly attributable to you don’t stuff that ‘Human beings aren’t supposed to’ do…as is your diet and just about everything else most likely in your life.
Personally, I’d take never getting old or being disease free if it happens before I shuffle off. I think that we humans will figure out how to make that work if it ever comes to that. We do and will continue to do a lot of things that we ‘aren’t supposed to’ do (which, if I haven’t beaten this horse to death mid-stream after checking it’s teeth has hopefully demonstrated that there IS nothing we are ‘supposed to’ or ‘aren’t supposed’ to do).
Probably wouldn’t have to kill people off. Accidents might well whittle away at human numbers sufficiently to avoid a pressure to kill off some for the benefit of others. Especially if birth control is a part of that immortality or becomes real popular.
Yeah, that’s nice and cynical, and I’m sure a few people who can’t do math will go that route, but really, unless we just stop building new houses, there’s no way prices would rise high enough to justify such measures. The point of a long mortgage is either to lower your monthly payments, or to increase the amount you can afford to borrow with the same monthly payments. The first means you end up paying a lot more in interest, thus requiring bad math skills, and the second requires either inflated prices, or people buying much bigger houses.
Well, good news, we’re not going to force it on you!
Which makes me wonder: would this lead to people, on average, being less religious? Wouldn’t those who believe in a heaven or afterlife be more likely to refuse such treatments?
Consider the possibility of immortal career criminals. I can envision the voters becoming less tolerant of recidivism. Would they vote for draconian punishments for repeat offenders? Or would they replace punishment with rehabilitation? (And when I say “rehabilitation”, I mean “orwellian brainwashing”.)