I’m still working on the Singularity Summit writeups…two more installments in that series, and then it will be finished. Between working on that series, writing my recent Madeleine L’Engle memorial piece, and trying to parse all this stuff on superlativity, keeping up with the usual civil-rights/neurodiversity pages I read, and wondering what to say next about healthy life extension (oh yeah, and the day job, which has been rather intense lately), I think it’s safe to say that my bandwidth is fairly saturated.

Briefly, though, for the moment I’ll say that I’ve been thinking a lot (again) about the “proper” way to approach discussing the subject of healthy life extension. Sometimes the approach is difficult because I never really know what “knee-jerk” reactions I’m going to end up getting from people. My desire to promote longevity medicine is based on the very simple reason that a person can only have experiences, and be happy, as long as they are alive.

I realize that as biological organisms we are all vulnerable (and always will be vulnerable) to potentially being smacked down at any time (by disease, by a bus, by an errant meteorite…), but medicine has always been about responding to this vulnerability as best we can. Longevity medicine is, fundamentally, simply an extension of general medicine that includes the elderly within the sphere of “lives worth saving”.

Date posted : October 4th, 2007 by AnneC Last Modified : October 4th, 2007 / Filed under : Feeds / Report a Concern Navigate : Previous post / Next post / Top of Page
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