There's actually quite a few cures for cancer. The issue is we can't cure cancer widely, at least not yet. Right now, there's a big problem with lack of staffing to support geriatrification of the aged among us. Most nursing homes and places like them aren't just understaffed either, they're also staffed with people that don't get paid in proportion to their work and end up doing a really shitty job. In fact, many of them them aren't culturally embedded the same way the elderly they take care of, causing all sorts of divides and further weakening the whole process. So, fixing the problems cancer solves currently isn't an option. As bad as things are right now, they would be made much worse by curing and preventing cancers. Unfortunately, doing so would make the issues worse, much worse, for everyone involved. Hell, there would quickly be a point we'd cross where there isn't even enough (housing) for all of the aged and non-contributive.
So, what needs to happen first is the breakthroughs in reversing aging need to be refined and released. Until people in the scientific community accept that mice do not have long telomeres, however, this won't happen. So, once we get refined and easily marketable age reversal tech or practices out, then we can address subsequent problems. Right now, the more humane thing to do is, as crazy as it might sound, let people succumb to age instead of letting them suffer relentlessly in lonely, tiny boxes.
I'm not sure I fully understand or can appreciate the reasoning either, but this is the reason. I'm sure if you guys have a fix that hasn't already been attempted or thought of, people would be willing to listen, though... But good luck with that.
In Canada, when the elderly can no longer keep up with the group, they just stay behind on the ice alone.
That takes care of it.
Agreed. Look for a post soon on breakthroughs for anti-aging.
Read up on NAD+. Really interesting research going on their. Even the US military is looking at it.
Last I heard Niacin was actually better the NNN and all the other things that that lifeextension Harvard doctor talked about at getting results.
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