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Apparently taller people don't live as long and once you control for height, male/female longevity differences go away. (It makes some intuitive sense to me... there are really old people and really tall people, but when's the last time you saw a really old really tall person?)
Given that living just a bit longer could plausibly allow you to live forever, if the right technologies get invented within that extra timespan, I think this is something worth considering.
Your intuitive reasoning is flawed. People get shorter with age (vertebral disks flatten, posture gets worse as muscles weaken).
Even ignoring all possible cohort effects (e.g. people growing up in the 1930s getting worse nutrition than people growing up in the 1990s), that just sounds like Berkson's paradox.
(I have no objection to the rest of the comment, and indeed I upvoted it.)