Monday, June 30, 2008

Can we really make death optional?


Cancer is undesirable. Heart disease is undesirable. So are type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s and a thousand other debilitations that predominantly afflict those over the age of 40. Is it not then bizarre that we should have any hesitation in declaring that aging in general, being the molecular and cellular root cause of all these phenomena, is just as deserving of the attention of our medical research efforts?  Here is the essay, and reactions

Remember "life extension" in the movie "Vanilla Sky?"

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