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Personally, I’m hoping we put more of an effort behind solving the problem so people won’t need to commit suicide. Sometime in the 21th century we’ll come up w
by melling 8y ago
Personally, I’m hoping we put more of an effort behind solving the problem so people won’t need to commit suicide.
Sometime in the 21th century we’ll come up with some sort of treatment. It’s just a matter of which decade.
Maybe we should increase funding now?
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/392585-heres-why-we-should-put-more-money-into-alzheimers-research https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/392585-heres-why-we-s...
There are 50 million people with Alzheimer’s and that number will increase significantly:
https://www.alz.co.uk/research/statistics https://www.alz.co.uk/research/statistics
- hycaria 8y agoWhy ? Assisted suicide is already feasible, cost is low, and makes room for the (sadly literal) billions of people waiting for a better life. It doesn't sound very moral to me to be willing to spend tens of thousands from insurances and such (so not exactly one's money) on individual treatment, just to get a bit more time for myself as an elderly person.
- jiveturkey 8y agoSolving the problem? You mean immortality?