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Re:The fight to cheat death is heating up by TeMPOraL on Thursday August 11, 2016 @05:20PM (#12271631)
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.
Re:The fight to cheat death is heating up by suddenseizure on Thursday August 11, 2016 @06:09PM (#12271981)
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 (#12271700)
> 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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh

Re:The fight to cheat death is heating up by FeepingCreature on Thursday August 11, 2016 @05:47PM (#12271823)
It's easy to be cautionary if there's no chance of actually achieving it. http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2625
Re:The fight to cheat death is heating up by TeMPOraL on Thursday August 11, 2016 @06:19PM (#12272047)
Truth be told, we have cautionary tales in our literature about pretty much any single thing a human being can desire. Power? Check. Riches? Check. Love? Check.