“Will we ever be able to defeat death?”

A question for which many people desire to find an answer beyond the usual ‘No’.

Let’s try and attempt this using concepts such as biological immortality, senescence, entropy and natural selection.

An explanation for death is that it is due to entropy (things wear out over time) and natural selection (we die so that future humans can live). But people and animals also die due to predators, homicide, disease and lack of food. What if we can overturn some of these factors?