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Addendum 1: If you want to stop aging, fund SENS research to the tune of a billion dollars over ten years. http://www.sens.org http://www.sens.org. Full stop, e
by orangecat 17y ago
Addendum 1: If you want to stop aging, fund SENS research to the tune of a billion dollars over ten years. http://www.sens.org http://www.sens.org. Full stop, end of story.
I'm baffled that this never comes up when we're discussing spiraling health care costs. The vast majority of health care dollars are spent trying (and ultimately failing) to treat conditions that are the direct result of aging. Even a billion dollars a year on research like what SENS is doing is cheap if there's any possibility of success. And that's not even accounting for the massively increased quality of life that would result, or the economic benefit of people remaining productive their entire lives.
FWIW, I've joined the cause to donate $100 to SENS once 10,000 people sign up: http://apps.facebook.com/causes/297361 http://apps.facebook.com/causes/297361.
- ximeng 17y agoYou might have to deal with euthanasia, stopping people having kids, or sharing wealth more widely if people live longer though.
- derefr 17y agoWhile we're playing with the human body's regulatory mechanisms, we can just make ovulation happen only once per year.
- jodrellblank 17y agoAnd? (I think we should deal with euthanasia and suicide anyway as a matter of fairness, and population growth if it becomes a serious issue).
- ximeng 17y agoAnd these topics are not cleanly dealt with by society at the moment. I agree that we should deal with these areas better. If we as a society can't agree that terminally ill people should be allowed to die in peace, then I don't think there's any cause for orangecat to be baffled that we don't fund anti-aging research as much as we should. You don't get a billion dollars unless you can have a sensible discussion about the necessary consequences of the research. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7166200/Pope-Benedict-XVI-criticises-tide-of-secularism-in-UK-and-support-for-euthanasia.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7166200/...