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How about better treatments for cancer? Not dying might help with anxiety too.
by turing_complete 5y ago
How about better treatments for cancer? Not dying might help with anxiety too.
- scarecrowbob 5y agoNot dying in general is an admirable goal; yet even if you can fix the cancer part of the equation those of us who don't get cancer will eventually die. Could just be an assumption on my part. Maybe we will fix the "dying" part of the issue as well.
- LocalH 5y agoI don't think we want to "fix" dying. Some evil, sociopathic human somewhere would figure out a way to use that to harm people in a very profound way. I would also have to imagine that immortality would eventually become quite boring, even absent something like that.
- scarecrowbob 5y agoI agree.
- inkblotuniverse 5y agoYou can always kill yourself.
- LocalH 5y agoHonestly, not everyone has the ability to do that.
- adamredwoods 5y agoI agree. As someone who is dealing with a loved one with metastatic cancer, the depression and anxiety for everyone involved is off the charts. The idea around this solution, is it is something available now, so not a lot of research or costs need to be invested to get it going. Whereas immunotherapy or CAR T-cell therapy is still ongoing research and investment.
- greyface- 5y agoHow about both? They are not in tension with each other.