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I consider these to be emotional reasons rather than rational ones. Specifically not wanting to die, not wanting certain others to die, and being afraid of death are irrational (or at least it is unclear that there are rational reasons for them). I think there are less roundabout ways to (dis)solve these problems than to engineer immortality. In a more rational culture (which we should be steering for anyway), we would not be so viscerally averse to death.
If it's irrational not to want to die, what do you think it would be rational to want?
Pleasurable experiences. My life facilitates them, but it doesn't have to be "my" life. Anyone's life will do.
And why do you think it's rational to want this, but not to want one's own survival?