Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8139816.stm

As time goes by, its undeniably noticeable that we are getting much closer to a man-made fountain of youth.

Masking the research with the face of "life extension", would it actually be a good thing that one day man will never age at all, hence not dying at all?
In terms of research and sciences, it might be the most significant ever, but socially and environmentally, is it?

Unless of course till then, man had found a way to actually step into the world of 'after-death' and see what's in there, then we might have another thought of actually living forever.

Even if say there are nothing after death, then we seriously need the technology to either help us migrate to all sorts of places in the Universe, or just simply shrink us to ants size just to make more space here on Earth.

I think immortality will be good in the long run.

In the short run, we will see the problem of overpopulation and dwindling of life-sustaining resources on Earth, but in the long run we will see a tremendous speed increase in the progress of humanity.

Imagine learning physics from an Issac Newton lecture at Multimedia University instead of getting it from a dude who cant teach to save his life, my god that would be fantastic.

Immortality will grant us a continuity of knowledge, we don't need to pick up the pieces from where some great mind left off, we can join them and work with them.

The knowledge of the devastations of war will prevent another from happening, finally giving us lasting and perhaps permanent peace.

It would be awesome for mankind if we didn't die and as I understand it, we're about 30 - 40 years away from it