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While I agree with the "live and let live" (or perhaps "die and let live") spirit of your latter paragraph, it does not address one of the more vivid arguments against your position: that the vast network of machinery with which you propose to extend your own life may itself be a formidable threat to the long-term viability of life on this planet

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So generally speaking I don’t think extending life will take much resources once we figure out the biochemistry of it. If it does and that deprives others of their enjoyment of life, sure I get it, I will just work to make life extension cheaper. However frankly consumerism and an addiction to travel and tourism eats up a lot more resources than the research and production of high tech biotech etc. If we end up with too much population, well I ask for nothing more than that my life is valued as much as the life of a baby, so long as I remain useful to society, don’t value someone’s right to have a child, more than my right to continue to live.

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