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What separates death and immortality? Money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Around the world researchers are working on discovering what\ncauses ageing and what could mitigate it. The name that springs to mind that best\nrepresents all this effort is Aubrey de Grey, a biomedical gerontologist and funny\nlooking fellow who ironically looks a lot older than he actually is. In his\nview what determines the pace of research and the discovery of therapies that\ncould not only prolong life, but vastly improve its quality by eliminating\nmajor degenerative diseases, is funding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As they say, time is money, and when it comes to research\ntime actually contracts when you throw money at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The problem Grey and his colleagues face is not directly the\nlack of money, however. It is the people who control it. Most of them are\nfairly advanced in years, and so may not be so inclined to invest either their\nown money or divert state money that might otherwise be used to fulfil election\npromises and thereby get them elected again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is where the youth of today need to do some reckoning. Why\nvote for old-guard politicians who increase military spending? Where will that\nget you? Vote for politicians who will divert funding from the military to anti-senescence\nresearch. The prize is there, long life, and probably immortality if we want it\neventually. Grey believes the first perosn to live to a 1000 is already 60 (he\nsaid this about 5 years ago in fact). With the right therapies, we would get\nold much more slowly and much more healthily, without the more debilitating\ndegenerative diseases, staying one step ahead of death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some will be sceptical. But if we must throw our money away,\nthen the youth of the world should opt to throw it at anti-senescence research,\nnot military spending. The science of anti-senescence\nis encouraging and progressing yearly, so it makes sense for youth to speed it\nup so that even perhaps those currently pessimistic may in fact live to see the\nbenefits in the not too distant future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What separates death and immortality? Money. Around the world researchers are working on discovering what causes ageing and what could mitigate it. The name that springs to mind that best represents all this effort is Aubrey de Grey, a biomedical … Continue reading