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"Aging really is barbaric. It shouldn't be allowed. I don't need an ethical argument. I don't need any argument. It's visceral. To let people die is bad."
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-- Aubrey de Grey, Chairman of the Methuselah Foundation
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Aging is not an immutable fact of life. The existence of aging is not carved in stone, never to be changed. Aging is no more than
a complex medical condition caused by a range of different processes.
As such, aging - just like all other medical conditions - is open to treatment, prevention, therapies and the search for a cure.
Medical researchers move forward, year by year, towards the knowledge and technologies essential for therapies to prevent
age-related degeneration. This longevity science has tremendous potential: imagine a world without frailty, disease and failing bodies, a world in which we could accumulate the
wisdom of years without suffering the indignities of an aging body and mind. This is a prize well worth pursuing.
Remarkably, longevity science receives little attention and far less funding than it
deserves. Funding devoted to aging research is a fraction of all medical research, and research into engineering greater healthy longevity
is a miniscule fraction of aging research. Progress is slow because funding is inadequate. Without funding to drive results and publicity,
the public and media remain largely unaware of the potential and
timelines of this research. Yet without an atmosphere of widespread public support and understanding, it is hard to raise
funding for research - and so progress continues to be slow. This cycle must be broken!
Government regulation and opposition from bioethicists is damaging
research and medical progress in this field. Incredibly, many people in positions of influence use their platforms to
campaign against the prevention of age-related suffering and death! This
is well illustrated by the stem cell and therapeutic cloning debates of recent years: research aiming to cure and prevent common
age-related conditions was slowed, postponed, or derailed.
The "anti-aging" marketplace - largely populated by cosmetics, fraudulent goods,
adventurous marketing, and products that do not address age-related degeneration in any meaningful way - has caused great damage to
funding for legitimate scientific research into slowing, preventing and reversing the aging process.
Each and every day, hundreds of millions of people struggle with crippling age-related conditions for which no cures yet exist.
Each and every day, more than 100,000 people die from age-related conditions. Stop and
think about that staggering figure just for a moment. Each death is the end of a unique, thinking, feeling human being,
killed by a medical condition that we are doing little to prevent and cure. If we fail to do our part to move longevity research forward,
then we too will one day be amongst the daily toll - a hundred thousand victims of our collective negligence.
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If nothing is done, you will become another unwilling victim of aging. We are all under threat, every last one of us. Isn't it time
that you joined the fight against aging? Isn't it time that you made your voice heard? Better sooner than later - step up and
support the research that will help all of us live longer, healthier lives.
Click here to make your contribution to the fight against aging!
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| Last updated October 05, 2008 |
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