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There isn’t really a principled distinction between stuff like “life extension technology” and medicine in general. In practice those are pretty much the same thing.
You can’t say that one is unnatural and wrong but the other isn’t.
In the same way, it just comes as poorly thought out when people start talking about how natural death is all good and should be accepted but see nothing wrong with curing or preventing diseases.
Like, you do know that “death by natural causes” generally means death by disease, right? And that what counts as “preventable” is entirely dependent on our understanding and technology?
Something like treating someone’s cancer would be saving them from natural death. I think this is good to do and that there’s no reason to stop there. The ideal would be to prevent as many diseases as possible and target the root causes of many of them.
And this is not even an all or nothing thing where you either kill death from all causes entirely or else get no result. Medical progress is going to have more immediate and intermediary benefits than that.
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