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I thought the idea of young people giving blood to rejuvenate old billionaires was modern. > Alexander Bogdanov (22 August 1873 – 7 April 1928)...After undergo

I thought the idea of young people giving blood to rejuvenate old billionaires was modern. > Alexander Bogdanov (22 August 1873 – 7 April 1928)...After undergoing 11 blood transfusions, he remarked with satisfaction the improvement of his eyesight, suspension of balding, and other positive symptoms. His fellow revolutionary Leonid Krasin wrote to his wife that "Bogdanov seems to have become 7, no, 10 years younger after the operation"... But a later transfusion cost him his life, when he took the blood of a student suffering from malaria and tuberculosis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bogdanov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bogdanov

SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
How bizarre - how rich do you have to be to become a vampire?
- ryanmarsh 7y ago
  Not that rich apparently. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/young-blood-transfusions-open-accepting-paypal-payments-cities-ambrosia-2019-1 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/young-b...
  - nprz 7y ago
    The FDA shut them down: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/aging/young-blood-company-ambrosia-halts-patient-treatments-after-fda-warning-n973266 https://www.nbcnews.com/health/aging/young-blood-company-amb...
    - SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
      Now how are the sorta-rich supposed to live out their ghoulish lifestyles? For shame.
- vanderZwan 7y ago
  Weren't vampires originally not-so-subtle symbol for aristocracy to begin with?
  - msla 7y ago
    The vampires we have now are a creation of literature, conscious borrowings, and deliberate de- and reconstructions. Ancient beliefs were varied and inconsistent, as you'd expect from a vague category comprised of "various folklore people used to believe about dead bodies getting up and being pests to the living"; in some ways, ancient vampires are closer to what we'd call zombies, and ancient zombies are closer to what we'd consider robots, in terms of being used for slave labor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_folklore_by_region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_folklore_by_region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie
    - kej 7y ago
      This is one of my favorite Wikipedia page, and I don't get to bring it up very often: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vampire_traits_in_folklore_and_fiction https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vampire_traits_in_fo...
      - DogOnTheWeb 7y ago
        I hope it is canon that Count Chocula turns to "chocolate cereal dust" upon death.
        tim333 7y ago
        I found this from the talk page amusing: >This article is AWFUL. I'm trying to do some research on comparative mythology of vampires, by culture, and am literally seeing Count Chocula in the same list as this broad-stroke "European" generalization.
AdmiralAsshat 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory#Folklore_and_popular_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory#Folklor... >The case of Elizabeth Báthory inspired numerous stories during the 18th and 19th centuries. The most common motif of these works was that of the countess bathing in her victims' blood to retain beauty or youth.

SketchySeaBeast 7y ago

How bizarre - how rich do you have to be to become a vampire?

ryanmarsh 7y ago
Not that rich apparently. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/young-blood-transfusions-open-accepting-paypal-payments-cities-ambrosia-2019-1 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/young-b...
- nprz 7y ago
  The FDA shut them down: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/aging/young-blood-company-ambrosia-halts-patient-treatments-after-fda-warning-n973266 https://www.nbcnews.com/health/aging/young-blood-company-amb...
  - SketchySeaBeast 7y ago
    Now how are the sorta-rich supposed to live out their ghoulish lifestyles? For shame.
vanderZwan 7y ago
Weren't vampires originally not-so-subtle symbol for aristocracy to begin with?
- msla 7y ago
  The vampires we have now are a creation of literature, conscious borrowings, and deliberate de- and reconstructions. Ancient beliefs were varied and inconsistent, as you'd expect from a vague category comprised of "various folklore people used to believe about dead bodies getting up and being pests to the living"; in some ways, ancient vampires are closer to what we'd call zombies, and ancient zombies are closer to what we'd consider robots, in terms of being used for slave labor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_folklore_by_region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_folklore_by_region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie
  - kej 7y ago
    This is one of my favorite Wikipedia page, and I don't get to bring it up very often: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vampire_traits_in_folklore_and_fiction https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vampire_traits_in_fo...
    - DogOnTheWeb 7y ago
      I hope it is canon that Count Chocula turns to "chocolate cereal dust" upon death.
      - tim333 7y ago
        I found this from the talk page amusing: >This article is AWFUL. I'm trying to do some research on comparative mythology of vampires, by culture, and am literally seeing Count Chocula in the same list as this broad-stroke "European" generalization.

AdmiralAsshat 7y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory#Folklore_and_popular_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory#Folklor... >The case of Elizabeth Báthory inspired numerous stories during the 18th and 19th centuries. The most common motif of these works was that of the countess bathing in her victims' blood to retain beauty or youth.