Either the info is wrong or you interpreted it wrong. All life is bio degradable and *nothing* is immortal.
Sure. You just have to turn into a vegetable or something similar every once in a while. It must be fun doing that continuously while billions of years pass along.
You know what would be cool? It would be cool if we could grow limbs/parts like crabs. Lose your finger? No problem! Somebody poke your eye out? A new will grow soon. Etc.
Have you seen a series a couple of months back on discovery, which explaining the answer for this question and was nicely presented. You can search this on discovery channel and name was similar like "can we live forever"? I found the series of two hours very interesting.
Yep, when we finally get 'stop aging' pills....or if we get 'reverse aging' pills we are all heading back for the womb!
Who says we don't live forever now? I believe we do, maybe in some different form but I'm pretty sure I have lived for thousands of years and will keep living on and on I have stopped with my retirement plan payments, it will never cover my hundreds of thousands of years to come, so why bother...