Growing Old Is A Disease, And We Should Look For A Cure

For the last few months I’ve been thinking of a TED video, where Aubrey de Grey was arguing that aging is just a disease, and like any disease it can be cured. He thinks that people have the potential of living for centuries if they approached aging like an engineering problem. He talks about the seven ways that people age and how each one could be cured eventually. Wouldn’t that be great? To live to be 1000. Not for us maybe, but for the generations that will follow.

What got me thinking about it again is this great post from Wrevenue.com called Living Well, Indefinitely. If you think the topic of preventing the body from growing old is interesting, then you should definitely read that article and the resource links that it has.

Stopping aging has its own set of problems, but I don’t see any that would be more important than the possibility of living longer and being able to enjoy the presence of your loved ones.

Here are just a few of the possible issues that might appear if we manage to do this:

• pension systems will kick the bucket. Either this, or the age to retire will be modified dramatically or it will be based more on someone’s ability to work rather than on his age.
• sports car sales will go down because the midlife crisis will be gone. Don’t laugh, people from the automotive industry could lose jobs because of this.
• women will have children later in life, if they don’t have just a 20 year window to have them. That, plus I see the growth rate of the population going up quite a bit if all women will be able to bear children in the future, and not just for a limited period of time.
• no more "Till death do us part". Yes, living 60 years with someone is one thing. Living 600 is another. I just don’t see it happening.
• women would lie about their age more and more. Would they admit they’re 200 years old if they looked like a 25 year old babe?

There is no possible argument that someone can bring me, that would make me think that stopping aging isn’t worth it. Every obstacle can be overcome and this end goal is so worth going after.

I would really enjoy being able to travel out of our solar system or having the time to visit every single country of this planet and all the great things they have to offer. All I need is time. Now, what company wants my money in the long run and wants to work on this cure? Get busy people, I only have a few decades left.

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Tags: CureAging, GrowingOld, LiveLonger, LivingLonger