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Originally Posted by Rain Man
I agree that that is the biggest downside. You'd still have people dying in accidents and catastrophic things like heart attacks, but the population would still increase.
My other concern is that the technology might be priced so that the rich and powerful could do it, but normal people couldn't. While that would prevent the population explosion you predict, it would cause a lot of other problems. However, I would hope that capitalism would prevail due to the profit motive of transcloning for the masses. (I just coined the term "transcloning". Let's try to get it into common use.)
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I mentioned "elites" in my original post. That kind of tech wouldn't be made available to anyone in the middle class or lower, at least from the start. So you would likely only be looking at a small portion of the population that would be living "forever". Those with more education also tend to reproduce less so I wouldn't expect a huge population explosion but that could become an issue maybe a couple hundred years after inception.