Once a longer life becomes a real option, everybody will choose it if he can.
That is not what currently happens. There are big differences in the way people age, and when they die. Many of them can be linked to lifestyle decisions, some are well researched, and a few even widely known due to public propaganda. And still people smoke. If a quick/fix, a pill, o something that looks like treatment becomes available that might change. But at the moment much of what actually can be done to improve life quality, length, or probability of surviving is just not done.
Depending on the details, many people may even reject “quick fixes that look like treatment” to death and disease.
See for instance the conservative response to the HPV vaccine Gardasil, which prevents the most common strains of the virus that causes genital warts—and thereby drastically reduces the risk of cervical cancer. By providing a “quick fix” to protect sexually active women from a deadly disease, Gardasil reduces the “punishments” available for an action (or “lifestyle”) disapproved by conservatives; therefore, they reject it.
That is not what currently happens. There are big differences in the way people age, and when they die. Many of them can be linked to lifestyle decisions, some are well researched, and a few even widely known due to public propaganda. And still people smoke. If a quick/fix, a pill, o something that looks like treatment becomes available that might change. But at the moment much of what actually can be done to improve life quality, length, or probability of surviving is just not done.
Depending on the details, many people may even reject “quick fixes that look like treatment” to death and disease.
See for instance the conservative response to the HPV vaccine Gardasil, which prevents the most common strains of the virus that causes genital warts—and thereby drastically reduces the risk of cervical cancer. By providing a “quick fix” to protect sexually active women from a deadly disease, Gardasil reduces the “punishments” available for an action (or “lifestyle”) disapproved by conservatives; therefore, they reject it.