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As someone who's job involved visiting nursing homes in a past life, I don't understand the desire for general life extension. Most of these elderly folks were
by cpursley 12y ago
As someone who's job involved visiting nursing homes in a past life, I don't understand the desire for general life extension. Most of these elderly folks were full of tubes and pills (at the cost to taxpayers of $7k per month).
This is no way to live. We as a society should focus less on "life extension" and more on living healthy lives and curing disease in general. Old age is not a disease. What's wrong with living and dying with dignity?
- dragonwriter 12y ago> As someone who's job involved visiting nursing homes in a past life, I don't understand the desire for general life extension. Most of these elderly folks were full of tubes and pills (at the cost to taxpayers of $7k per month). "Elderly folks in nursing homes" are not a representative sample of people in their age range. There is a pretty significant selection bias there. > We as a society should focus less on "life extension" and more on living healthy lives and curing disease in general. Most focus on "life extension" is on curing diseases of aging and repairing or presenting progressive damage that results in decreased quality of life and, ultimately, death, so I don't think the goals you prefer are actually much different than what focus on "life extension" already means in practice. > What's wrong with living and dying with dignity? Nothing. Lots of us would just prefer more of the former, and doing the latter later.