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Well if we "cure" aging, it will have the awkward consequence that every life must end with an accident, disease or suicide.
by kristiandupont 11y ago
Well if we "cure" aging, it will have the awkward consequence that every life must end with an accident, disease or suicide.
- imaginenore 11y agoOr not taking the cure.
- dTal 11y agoWhich can be decomposed into not taking the cure by choice (suicide) and being deprived of it forcibly, which can be further decomposed into negligence (accident) or malice (murder).
- imaginenore 11y agoThat's like saying shooting yourself in the head is just an allergic reaction to lead.
- Retra 11y agoI can't see the comparison...
- jraines 11y agoOr not being able to afford it
- dalke 11y agoYou left out murder and war. I doubt it will be awkward. It will be viewed that aging is a disease, that we have the cure now, so there's one less way to die. Getting rid of polio didn't make the other ways of dieing more awkward.
- kolinko 11y agoThere is also a slow dissolution into a different state of being. I imagine humans living long enough to begin augmenting their bodies and brains into a thing that no longer resembles the original being. Or even a form of life as we understand it today.
- neverartful 11y agoOr starvation.
- _random_ 11y agoMost lives already end with a disease. You don't die from old age. Investing in things other than not-freaking-dying - now that's awkward.
- alkonaut 11y agoWould have profound impact on how we value our own lives (and others). If you are 60 you might get a motorcycle because what the hell. Worse case you crash and lose 20-30 years of which only 10-15 are good. With aging out out the window you could have centuries to lose.