Ethics of Immortality

Graphic by Sidney Harris  from American ScientistIn these current days of a world-wide pandemic of the deadly COVID-19 virus infectionand as of the origination of this blog thread there is concern as to how long testing for aneffective vaccine will take, the above image from the book " What ' s So Funny AboutScience "  from American Scientist can set a worthy ethical and philosophic topic  to start.Should science and the population of our planet ever think of creating a " vaccine " that wouldor even attempted to " could " lead to human immortality?If so, would the current space flight experiments provide the necessary movement from ourcurrent planet Earth to elsewhere in space which at first will become less crowded?Silly issue, immortality?  What might the reasons be against this science breakthrough?Hopefully, the vaccine for COVID-19 will be available and tested and found effectivesoon to bring this ongoing pandemic to an end.  But the question regarding immortalitydoes " live on " .  ..Maurice.
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