But we already are, in the sense that medical and safety research is constantly being conducted and there are professionals whose job is to rescue people from fires and similar disasters. There's always trade-offs though. A lot of death could be prevented by banning motor vehicles, should we do that? Of course not. In some ways, it could be argued that we're already going too far to prevent death, for example by banning doctor-assisted suicide.
I believe that we are working kinda sorta well against so-called 'premature' death. But I do not believe that death is widely considered to be itself a solvable problem - this article itself starts with this defeatist statement:
> Your demise is inevitable. I hope that doesn’t come as too much of a shock.
There's a lot less work going into increasing our maximum lifespan that there is going into increasing our average lifespan.
But we already are, in the sense that medical and safety research is constantly being conducted and there are professionals whose job is to rescue people from fires and similar disasters. There's always trade-offs though. A lot of death could be prevented by banning motor vehicles, should we do that? Of course not. In some ways, it could be argued that we're already going too far to prevent death, for example by banning doctor-assisted suicide.