Comments on: Survivors https://blog.speculist.com/life_extension/survivors.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Stephen Gordon https://blog.speculist.com/life_extension/survivors.html#comment-5287 Stephen Gordon Tue, 01 Jun 2010 06:01:28 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=2099#comment-5287 “I heard not long ago that we are currently losing World War II veterans at a rate of 1000 a day… I wonder how that rate compares to the death rate during the war years?
It’s very sad that we would regard a death rate of 1000 per day during wartime as a tragic necessity — with equal emphasis on the “tragic” and “necessity” parts — but today we view the same rate of loss as unremarkable as it is unavoidable.”

Aubrey de Grey has said, in effect, that we find death rates like this unremarkable because its unavoidable… we think.

Its a rationalization that allows us to function in the face of incredible loss. If enough people ever believe that its not unavoidable, that attitude will change.

Aubrey believes that point is when we demonstrate unequivocal life extension in mice.

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