What Aging Means to Me

And a bit of theorizing I'm copying from my other site from about 2.5 months ago, in case I ever need to recover it. It was in response to reading an article discussing anti-aging medicines and having isolated specific causes of aging:

So is anyone else actually scared by talk of anti-aging medicines? I read an article the other day outlining the work already being done, what they've found that causes cell death that seems to cause aging, and suggesting that by the year 2050 people will regularly be living to around age 150. Now looked at one way, slowing that type of cell breakdown would seem to mean we'd be healthier. It would also mean I haven't already lived a whole 4th of my life, and having not spent most of that very well, it might be nice to think there'll be more of it to spend right. However, looked at the other way, I keep thinking about all the sci-fi theories of one day enabling people to live forever. On Earth I mean, in this life. And that there seems to be something wrong with that, trying to cling forever to this and never move on to (hopefully) heaven and a life most completely united with God. Ignoring the fact that such an extreme is probably impossible and would never happen in my lifetime anyway, I wouldn't ever want to be faced with that choice. Nor would I want someone to make if for me, changing things so that I would never be able to die naturally. But what I wonder now, and what's more relevant now, is this: where does prolonging life another fifty years fall into things? What if it was another hundred or two? Another thousand? If the first is becoming possible, aren't they going to work for the others next, and how far could we push it with our own treatments and medications? Is it okay if it isn't forever, or is this something we should leave alone? People lived hundreds of years in early Biblical days. Maybe it's a disease that developed, one of the many things that has kept getting worse since the Fall, like other diseases we've now found cures for. That makes the most sense, to me, perhaps because it also implies a definite ending to the number of possible years.. we could eventually cure the disease that shortens our lives this much, but could never push life to beyond the couple hundred years we originally got after the Fall. After which, having lived a natural lifespan, we would still go to meet God.