Yes. Were the world perfect, and Laurence's ideal reached... that would have been what would happen. Then the Research Hall could've gone about its business and reached that ideal that Byrgenwerth sought.

[But the reality is none of that happened, and Maria got to see what happened at the end of Yharnam's life. A slow, awful rot that eventually killed the whole city.

She doesn't say that; it's easier to sit and pretend.]

And then we'd all be free. Of the trappings of being human. The drawbacks. No more suffering, no more death, no more beastial stupidity. Perhaps, we'd even be able to follow the Great Ones to the next plane.