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Genre: Education
Date of upload: May 26, 2022 ^^
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I agree with the goal of extending the "quality of life" years, even if doesn't extend lifespan. This would make life more active and enjoyable for seniors while simultaneously reducing age-related medical costs and the often-extreme costs of end-of-life care that barely extends "existence". This starts with diet, fitness and other self-care, but there is a place for medicine as well, if it can be shown to be both safe and effective.
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Life expectancy was so low because infant and child mortality was insanely high, not because people died in their 30's. If you made it past childhood, you could expect to live to see your 60's or 70's. It's not that people were dying at 35, it's that all the people dying in childhood and infancy dragged the overall expectancy way down.
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We really need to stop exaggerating past life expectancy figures when discussing people already here and able to comprehend videos such as this. In 1841, beating infant mortality added about 7 years, and beating early childhood mortality on top of that (age 5) added another 7 (14 total) years. Yes it makes a great Family Guy cutaway picturing peasant farmers who died en masse in their 30s, but that's just not really how it worked.
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If we can live longer lots of the thoughts expressed by the people in this video will change. People will care more about the environment and resources, people that live longer will be willing to learn new trades. We should all live longer, not just the wealthy will benefit from the medical advances, poor people will be included in the ability to live long also.
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Anyone arguing that ageing and death is a good thing is just... I have no words to adequately describe how abhorrent that view is. It's like if you argued that premodern infant mortality levels were morally good and should have been preserved.
We're so used to being condemned to the horror of our own mortality that we rationalize it as a good thing to make facing it easier, but it is a disease, and those wanting to block us from developing a cure are evil beyond words.
The fact that improving human life would result in additional challenges is an argument to address those challenges and their underlying causes, not deny making lives better.
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@Supremepikachu
1 year ago
Anti aging does not mean immortality. Immortality means not dying from anything, while with anti aging you can still die but not from the aging.
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