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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by soheil on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:26AM (#28151913)
It's dangerous to see acceptance of death as a kind of virtue. The amount of funding dedicated to anti-aging research is very small, it's a tiny subset of funding for Alzheimer's disease by the NIH. I think it's precisely this line of thinking that explains the lack of funding and the extremely slow progress in this field [0].

[0] https://www.nia.nih.gov/about/budget/fiscal-year-2021-budget

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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by xvector on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:40AM (#28152019)
Exactly. It may have been "virtuous" to accept death when it was inconceivable to solve.

Today anti-aging solutions are likely within reach should we concentrate research and funding in a massive push to solve the issue.

We ought to abandon our fatalistic outlook (that existed solely due to prior necessity) and sprint towards this goal with every fiber of our beings.

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