[extropy-chat] ILE: life just got a little more complicated

[kevinfreels at hotmail.com]

Can we get together and buy an island to do all this research on?

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From: "Reason" <reason at exratio.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 12:40 AM
Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] ILE: life just got a little more complicated


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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org
> > [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org]On Behalf Of Robert J.
> Bradbury
>
> > Terminology:
> > ILE: Indefinite Lifespan Extension -- preferable to
> > "IMMORTALITY" because IMMORTALITY can take too many
> > hits based on the physics of the universe.  (Protons
> > decaying, expansion accelerating, black holes consuming
> > everything else, yada yada yada...).
> >
> > Ok, now one of the serious questions that people should
> > be concerned with with respect to ILE is precisely *how*
> > do I get my cake.  For those of us on the upside end of
> > 40, or perhaps 30, cryonics enters into the equation.
> >
> > *But* as some of us know cryonics becomes pretty *iffy*
> > if the legal authorities stick their fingers into the works.
> > (Cases in point range from the current situation regarding
> > the Martinot's in France to the case of Dora Kent in the past.)
>
> I think I would go so far as to say that the entirety of the "cake or not"
> question revolves around government interference. My take is that we're
> probably 30 years away from the start of aging as a chronic but controlled
> condition, *IF* there are clear skies and freedom for fundraising,
activism,
> education and research. There are no show-stopping hurdles beyond a lot of
> work and a lot of money - exactly the same thing that could have been said
> about cancer 30 years ago.
>
> This time could easily double if politicians and anti-progress forces
really
> dig in and fight seriously to halt medical progress towards ILE...which
they
> show all the signs of doing. Already, scientific progress in regenerative
> medicine is far behind where it could have been.
>
> Reason
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