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What is your view of the lives of elderly people? I would trade health, mobility and my intellectual capabilities intact to 90 for 20 years of problems (70->90)
by sgt101 8y ago
What is your view of the lives of elderly people? I would trade health, mobility and my intellectual capabilities intact to 90 for 20 years of problems (70->90) followed by another 20 years of geriatric life (90->110).
I would agree with you if the common experience of old age was positive and healthy; but it seems to me that the priority for research should be to alleviate the problems and suffering we will all face should we be lucky enough to get there, especially now that the majority of people are lucky.
Perhaps healthier older people will live a lot longer as well?
- garmaine 8y ago> I would agree with you if the common experience of old age was positive and healthy It’s not positive and healthy because you age. You fix aging and people will have a physical age of 25 forever and do all sorts of fun things with perfectly capable bodies. That’s the point. I don’t know what sort of counter factual world you are describing where we have “alleviated aging” but people still age...
- Koshkin 8y ago> age of 25 My daughter would say "ew"