Also known as the 3 i's. illness, impressing, and intimidating....
swalke813 wrote:Weird Harold wrote:
Albrecht is overly optimistic. He couldn't be a proper super-villian without overstating his abillities by at least double "normals" life expectancy.
I think even if he's right, statistics will kill off everyone before biology will get a chance to; actual immortality is probably unobtainable through biological means. The longer someone lives, the greater the statistical certainty that a fatal accident will happen to them.
I suspect that third-generation prolong hasn't been around long enough to determine what the true life expectancy will be. Theoretical immortality may have already been achieved, but death by accident will keep anyone from noticing.
You have it dead on. Eventually illness, accident, or violence will kill. I'm reminded of Lorien of Babylon 5.