I don't know if anybody told you yet, and don't let this be a shock, but we're all going to die anyway. Even you.
like Jim Henson, from rejecting medicine.
Why I'd love to take all of the promised medicine that the biologists will give to us. Why if the grant proposals are to be believed, immortality is just across the horizon. Take stem cells. Why it will cure everything, we will never die. It's the fountain of youth, the cureall. In fact, we'd better get rid of our nasty little ethics right now, if we want to harvest all of the wonderful things that it promises. So, when will this utopia come? Well, never, actually. They don't know what they're doing vis-á-vis stem cells. There isn't even any theoretical hope of any sort of success from this "science". Stem cells are more likely to replicate a Shakey's pizza than anything else at this stage.
But, hey, it sounds good.
People, not even scientists, can predict the future. If you go to Disneyland and visit Tomorrowland, you see rocketships and flying cars. Conspicuous by its absence is the information superhighway. We don't know in which direction the future will advance. However, if you look at medical care from, say the 1950s onward, there is a clear improvement and advance in medical knowledge and technology. No one's promising utopia, but I am still optimistic enough about the future to want to see it and live in it.