Re:The fight to cheat death is heating up
by TeMPOraL on Thursday August 11, 2016 @05:20PM
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No, it's appalling that something like this is not already done. That it requires bunch of rich people to become seriously discussed at all, instead of being a continued major focus of medical research for decades now. People are funny this way. They'll bury their dead and mourn their loss, consider their own mortality and preach about life everlasting, or write stories about elixirs of youth. But to actually move a finger and support the war against death? No, that's insane.
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Re:The fight to cheat death is heating up
by suddenseizure on Thursday August 11, 2016 @06:09PM
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I don't think it's as easy as you portray it. To "cure death", you have to cure every thing that can go wrong with you.
Look at just once thing that can go wrong with you: cancer. There are huge amounts of money poured into cancer research around the world.
But I don't even know if my wife, only 30 years old but recently diagnosed with cancer, will live long enough for us to have kids and see them grow up.
Re:The fight to cheat death is heating up
by ashark on Thursday August 11, 2016 @05:30PM
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> write stories about elixirs of youth
One of our earliest extant pieces of literature (fragments from ~2100 BCE, earliest complete version before 1000 BCE) is about that, in fact. It's a cautionary tale.
Re:The fight to cheat death is heating up
by FeepingCreature on Thursday August 11, 2016 @05:47PM
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It's easy to be cautionary if there's no chance of actually achieving it. http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2625