I guess my idea stemmed from the abundance of life saving vaccines in the west that create a life-extension effect. The production of these cures was a ‘no price is too high’ to reach the invention. Since a vaccine that could cure all disease and secure immortality I would expect that economic policy to still apply, and apply even more dramatically.
If you’ll accept that this proposed immortality vaccine is 100% effective at preventing ANY kind of death, what price is too high to pay? Obviously, many would say: no price is too high.
Therefore, I think wars would immediately begin, since the instruments of war would seem to soon be practically useless.
Also, if you’re immortal, I think a new culture would have to be devised that suits immortality. In essence, we can’t relate fully to immortal beings.
All that to ask – what does this say about our current events? And, also, in a more literal sense, if we’re indeed on the brink of treatments that create states that approximate immortality, the era we live in could be the last that experiences the epic loss of death.
It’s interesting to imagine those would be immortal historians painstakingly memorializing those who did suffer death. Possibly even animating facsimiles.