Reddit uncharacteristically optimistic about the capitalist hellhole they are going to be living in.

Reversing aging and trying to stop death is dumb. It's probably impossible, and certainly individualistic. I believe it was Mao who said, toward the end of his life, something along the lines of "just as the true communist willingly sacrifices himself for the good of the people, so the older generation accepts death for the sake of the new generation."

LATE EDIT: can't find the specific Mao quote I was thinking of (I may be misremembering), but here's something similar, from his speech to the 8th Party Congress:

The Chinese people consider weddings as red happy events and funerals white happy events. I find them very rational. The Chinese know dialectics. Weddings will produce children. A child is split out of the body of the mother. It is a sudden change, a happy event. One individual is split into two or three, or even 10, like the aircraft carrier.

The common people find the deaths, changes and occurrences of new matters happy events. When a person dies, a memorial meeting is held. While the bereaved weep in mourning, they feel it is also a happy event. Actually, it is. Just imagine if Confucius were still living and here at this meeting in Huai-jen Hall, he would be over 2,000 years old and it wouldn’t be so good! If one subscribes to dialectics and yet disapproves of death, it will be metaphysics. Disasters are social phenomena, natural phenomena. Sudden changes are the most fundamental law of the universe. Birth is a sudden change; so is death. In the several decades from birth to death, it is a gradual change. If Chiang Kai-shek should die, we would clap our hands in joy. If Dulles should die, none of us would shed a tear. This is because the death of matters of the old society is a good thing, hoped for by everyone.