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Why Do People Want to Live So Long, Anyway?
- haspoken 4y agohttps://archive.ph/BjY0z https://archive.ph/BjY0z
- bell-cot 4y ago> “The quest to live forever, or to live for great expanses of time, has always been part of the human spirit,” says Paul Root Wolpe, director of the Emory Center for Ethics. Yes - but the closing decades of those dreamed-of long lives have always been idyllic "golden years". Vs. today medical science & society can credibly threaten tens of millions of people with decades of degrading purgatory, effectively locked inside thousands of cut-rate warehouses for the enfeebled, senile, and unwanted elderly.
- allears 4y ago"Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old." -- Jonathan Swift