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Linster I will not trouble to defend, but you are reading Gray uncharitably. By "more deadly" he surely means "duller" ("dull" is an adjective to which "deadly" is often yoked). The claim that immortality would be boring may be false, but it is not obviously ridiculous.
Even assuming your interpretation is correct, the claim is not that immortality would be boring. The claim is that nothing could be more boring than immortality. I would argue that an infinite series of observer-moments, each with a non-zero chance of being interesting, is ridiculously obviously less boring than a finite series of observer-moments concluding with ceasing to exist.