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army1987 comments on Interesting new Pew Research study on American opinions about radical life extension - Less Wrong Discussion
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I once heard an acquaintance of a friend of mine put it this way (back when I wasn't familiar with transhumanism and I didn't know whether he was wrong or right): “Life extension had better be called old age extension: you may die at 160 instead of 80, but it's not like when you're 40 you'll do the things people today do when they're 20.”
Anyway, going by revealed preferences, fewer people might dislike the former scenario than you might think.
I don't think that necessarily reveals people's preferences; that would imply that they choose that outcome. I think in most cases people are ignorant of what is going to happen, or know only in an abstract sense. Those who actually know what they're in for, tend not to die that way..