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Hmm, I've heard that only under 40 is trauma/suicide the leading cause of death. After that, it's cancer and all sorts of other diseases, or like undiagnosed he
by carabiner 5y ago
Hmm, I've heard that only under 40 is trauma/suicide the leading cause of death. After that, it's cancer and all sorts of other diseases, or like undiagnosed heart conditions.
- echelon 5y agoIf we get human head transplants working, we can use regenerative cloning to create new bodies. It'll be the cure to aging, cancer, everything. If not clones of the patient, we could use monoclonal bodies with O- blood and HLA neutrality to negate the need for immunosuppressants. New thymuses and pulmonary systems regenerate immune and endothelial health of the brain. We're close, we just need a conceptual jump. It sounds icky, but not in practicality. Tangentially, we could use artificial chimeric pig uteruses to artificially give birth. It'd relieve the burden of bearing children.
- charcircuit 5y agoJust have a robot body and then simply live in VR.
- mellavora 5y agoLove the underlying assumption that somehow the head is "you" and the body is the replaceable part. Can't say I accept that assumption as true, but it is nice to see it laid out so explicitly.
- nradov 5y agoBrains also decay and malfunction with age.