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This paper offers new arguments to reject the alleged dream of immortality. In order to do this, I firstly introduce an amendment to Michael Hauskeller's approach of the "immortalist fallacy". I argue that the conclusion "we (normally) do not want to live forever" does not follow from the premise "we (normally) do not want to die". Next, I propose the philosophical turn from "normally" to "under these circumstances" to resolve this logical error. Then, I review strong philosophical critiques of this transhumanist purpose of immortality in the literature. There are two key questions related to the possibility of fulfilling this goal: the hard problem of consciousness and the personal identity dilemma. Finally, I defend a specific type of indefinite life and justify that it is more desirable than our current limited life.

In the philosophical debate on aging, it is common to raise the question of the theoretical definition of aging in terms of its possible characterization as a disease. Understanding aging as a disease seems to imply its medicalization, which has important practical consequences. In this paper, we analyze the question of whether aging is a disease by appealing to the concept of disease in the philosophy of medicine. As a result of this analysis, we argue that a pragmatist approach to the conception of disease is the best alternative to highlight the relevance of the medicalization of aging. From this pragmatist perspective, it can be seen that the notion of aging is going through a conceptual change, and aging can today be understood as a not radically different process from any other condition that is usually considered a disease.

supone una auténtica reflexión sobre algunos de los conceptos fundamentales del envejecimiento y de la extensión radical de la vida humana. En el presente artículo se pretende debatir sobre el marco teórico que ha propuesto y, tras ello, se analizará brevemente qué tipo de conexión tiene con el mejoramiento humano. Se sugerirá como conclusión la dificultad que tiene este tipo de propuesta para alcanzar la inmortalidad.