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To the detriment of hard science, there are experiments that shoul not, can not and will not ever be more than thought experiments.
It's not very difficult to gauge how external change affects us. Unless we have a very special "wiring" in our minds, it breaks us in an over elaborate death by a thousand cuts.
Many people who lived long and fruitful and well lived lives left behind tellings, especially in the form of diaries, on how they missed that person, or pet, or place or something else. And this is something any human being can easily relate to.
Eternal youth would turn cruel to those having it.
We lose people we care about all the time during life and most of the time we donβt want our lives to end because we lost our friends, family or even lovers. If anything, it gets easier to accept loss as you get older. Thereβs no reason to think that trend would reverse.
Are you trying to convey we grow indifferent to loss or just accept it more easily or just develop better ways to keep our feelings to ourselves?
Over an average life span of 75 years we may lose, let's average, around 35 meaningful persons.
Now lets scale that figure twice, three, four times. Or even more, because who knows what other nefarious effects the sense of immortality would have on our psyche?
At some point it would grow enough on any sane person having to cope with losing one loved one after the other.
How are we losing these loved ones? Are you assuming you're the only person getting these pills?
Acts of violence, fortuit events, acts of god, etc.
Death comes for us in many fashions.
So why do you suppose we would be losing so many more people over some reasonable span of time if it's only the unusual that is killing them?
Your opinion on this isn't very coherent. I suspect it is more tied to an emotional reaction more than some objective reason. You may want to explore why.
I'd risk deaths by fortuitous reason would rise, pumped by the sense of near immortality provided by the magic fairy dust pills. People tend to take unnecessary risks when they feel invincible. Think of yearly twenty years old.
Thank you for your kind consideration.