YES. NEXT QUESTION, PLEASE. Should We Treat Aging? But there’s this: “One must understand there there are a great many people in the world whose first, instinctive reaction to extending healthy human life is to reject it. For them, life extension is indeed a bad thing. Various strains of environmentalism are one of the main culprits here. . . . There’s nothing wrong with liking trees and wild places enough to spend your hard-earned resources on helping to maintain them. But environmentalism has a way of veering off into the worship of death and destruction, a sort of modern penitent movement focused on the mortification of society as a whole. It’s so widespread and embedded in our cultures now that even mild-mannered, everyday folk declare their support for shorter and fewer human lives, for abandonment of technologies that improve the quality of human life, and for relinquishment of technological development that will greatly improve life in the future.”

There’s a story on a related theme.

UPDATE: Reader Jeff Cauthen writes: “Death and destruction and short lives, except for the chosen few, of course!”

“Aging waivers” will be available to anyone — who makes a sufficient contribution.