The Greatest Good: What is the best charitable cause in the world?

Re:The Greatest Good: What is the best charitable cause in t... by raverbashing on Saturday June 20, 2015 @09:13AM (#9749873)

> Age-related disease kills ~100,000 people every day

People die. In other news water is wet.

Now, I'm all for making people live longer, with quality of life

> and causes horrible day to day suffering for hundreds of millions of others

Because doctors prop up the sick (often with family support) and artificially extend their life while costing a lot of money in 'treatments' for unrecoverable conditions.

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Re:The Greatest Good: What is the best charitable cause in t... by Symmetry on Saturday June 20, 2015 @12:26PM (#9750338)

If you're looking to keep people alive for long periods of time you necessarily have to work to address frailty because frailty kills. The sort of last ditch treatments to keep someone alive for another year or month you describe aren't really related to SENS's goals except in the broad sense that they're both keeping people alive.

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Re:The Greatest Good: What is the best charitable cause in t... by jeffreyrogers on Saturday June 20, 2015 @12:36PM (#9750364)

I think you misunderstood the person you're replying to. They meant that people's lives should end well (not propped up on life support) and that we should focus more on quality of life than on life extension. There was a great article that went around a few years ago called "How Doctors Die"[1] that showed the difference between medical professionals approach death and how normal people approach it.

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/your-money/how-doctors-die...

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