150,000 people worldwide die every year. That's the equivalent of 50 9/11 attacks a day.
Two thirds of these are from illnesses connected to the aging process.
We might appeal to the naturalistic fallacy and say death and aging are a part of life, but who really wants to see their parents die, or become old and slowly and painfully decline and die themselves?
If we used even a small fraction of our current military budget we could see great leaps in life extension technology. I think it makes more sense to spend those billions on preserving and saving lives than on taking them.
I would like the White House to launch a great project on the scale of the Moon Landing or Manhattan Project to find a way to slow down or even reverse the aging process within the next several decades.