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> hope to reach 60 in August and all I want for my birthday is another one This sentence is so powerful. I am very sorry to hear this. In these situations, I

by a1371 2y ago

> hope to reach 60 in August and all I want for my birthday is another one This sentence is so powerful. I am very sorry to hear this. In these situations, I can't help but feel it's so unfair. I'm not talking about unfair as in people dying young. Unfair as in there is a particular combination of alterations to physical matter that is going to solve this problem. It's out there. We just haven't found it. I know it's not this easy but I grind my teeth thinking that if someone, somewhere has an epiphany today, this person can be back to fill health in no time. today was not that day.

delichon 2y ago
By the time you get to that age you've lost so many younger friends and family that in comparison the prospect of your own death doesn't feel so unfair. Instead it feels like a privilege to draw breath.
- anonzzzies 2y ago
  Once loved ones or you had something serious at mostly any age this feeling will creep in. I had a bout with cancer at 35 and had friends die from different things (mostly suicide) that I have been feeling privileged for being alive since my mid thirties (I am in my 50s now). I think it was a gift... and a curse, to be ill quite young; nothing that other people care so much about during their 'working years' means anything in the grand scheme of things.
dsign 2y ago
> I know it's not this easy but I grind my teeth thinking that if someone, somewhere has an epiphany today, this person can be back to full health in no time Your are correct, and I understand the feeling. Not a great consolation, but we are that close to fixing these diseases because of everything else we have accomplished. Automation. Research on biology. Computing and all its many, many branches of research. Even AI. Humanity has been busy killing God since the dawn of time. We just need to wrap our pain as best we can, hoist that heavy burden onto our shoulders, and keep going.

by a1371 2y ago

delichon 2y ago

By the time you get to that age you've lost so many younger friends and family that in comparison the prospect of your own death doesn't feel so unfair. Instead it feels like a privilege to draw breath.

anonzzzies 2y ago
Once loved ones or you had something serious at mostly any age this feeling will creep in. I had a bout with cancer at 35 and had friends die from different things (mostly suicide) that I have been feeling privileged for being alive since my mid thirties (I am in my 50s now). I think it was a gift... and a curse, to be ill quite young; nothing that other people care so much about during their 'working years' means anything in the grand scheme of things.

dsign 2y ago

> I know it's not this easy but I grind my teeth thinking that if someone, somewhere has an epiphany today, this person can be back to full health in no time Your are correct, and I understand the feeling. Not a great consolation, but we are that close to fixing these diseases because of everything else we have accomplished. Automation. Research on biology. Computing and all its many, many branches of research. Even AI. Humanity has been busy killing God since the dawn of time. We just need to wrap our pain as best we can, hoist that heavy burden onto our shoulders, and keep going.