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Living Well, Indefinitely + $20 Blogging Challenge
Posted by Scott on 6th March, 2008 | 154 commentsI’m in San Diego this week for the Emerging Technology Conference. ETech offers a great opportunity to hear about the latest tech breakthroughs and to talk with some of today’s best minds in science, engineering, and online media.
There are a lot of sessions at the conference that focus on genetics, neurobiology, and other health/biological science. One area that I have become particularly passionate about is longevity research — not just the idea of living longer, but the idea of biologically living as a 20-something indefinitely without experiencing age related disease or decay. Despite many advances in research over the past decade, this important concept has not yet been widely embraced by the public, and after talking with some of the best minds here, I’ve come to the following conclusions:
6 Reasons People Don’t Support Longevity Research:
1) They are highly religious, and believe that living is standing in the way of reaching their creator. This doesn’t make sense because any creator would have given us life and wants us to live, not to die. Christianity says that Jesus’ death was a sacrifice, something undesirable, not something to be welcomed and revered.
2) They use history (the death of all living things before us) as an excuse for why preventing aging, disease, and death, are ultimately impossible despite the vast number of “first time” accomplishments and breakthroughs that our species has had in the past 100 years alone.
3) They don’t like their lives and would therefore choose not to prolong them. Ultimately this is a solvable problem, given resources and time.
4) They are old and are decrepit, aging has already deteriorated their mind and body, and life isn’t worth living.
5) They are morally opposed to a longer life, citing social problems or population issues. Again, this is a problem that can be addressed – requiring the deaths of billions after some agreed upon period of time in order to make room for a fresh batch should not be a requirement to living.
6) They believe that aging is a given – that it is caused by time, not by cellular processes. In reality, it is known that aging is programmed into our cells as an evolutionary process.
…And yet, nearly every living human contradicts all 6 of the above by:
1) Accepting the latest medical advances in drugs (for high blood pressure, vaccines, cholesterol, diabetes, etc), diagnostics, surgical procedures, which have extended our life expectancy from 30 in 1800 to over 75 today.
2) The innate fear of death is a natural protective emotion that we all experience, and we therefore wear seat belts, we go to the emergency room to get “fixed” when we are very ill, we skip French fries and steaks at times, most choose not to smoke, and we look both ways when crossing the street. We do these things to keep living because we choose life!
Why the contradiction?
Why are we happy to continue pushing the envelope of age by relying on technological advancements in one breath, and in the next breath failing to become adamant supporters of anti-aging research?
1) People view living too long as undesirable because they think it means reaching a decrepit state like that of today’s 120 year olds, and maintaining that indefinitely. That would be unpleasant. However, the aim of longevity research is to stop aging and to maintain a physical biological age of 20 something, indefinitely. If you could live as a 25 year old for 500 years, or more importantly, indefinitely (with no certain well defined end) wouldn’t you?
2) People ignore their mortality until they’re dead or dying. The thought of dying, not-existing, losing everything one has and all of one’s memories for billions of years to come, is scary and no one likes to think about it. Therefore, if the only people who care about aging and death are 80, then who is going to fix the problem? We need 18 year olds to study science and become researchers to fix the problem and 20 something science geniuses to dedicate their lives to the problem, but they don’t care because 18 year olds think that they’re immortal. By the time a person starts thinking about death, in their 30’s or 40’s, it’s probably too late for them (even if they are in a scientific field) to specialize in the area of research that could stop it from happening to us.
3) Society views death as a certainty, like “death and taxes” as the saying goes, and aging and its associated diseases is directly responsible for that timeless belief. It’s that ingrained belief that leads to apathy and acceptance. If everyone is apathetic and accepting of death and aging, then no one will try to change it.
4) People view aging as the last frontier, and won’t care to tackle it until all other threats (disease) have been eliminated first. The trouble with this mentality is that most disease including cancer and heart disease is age related - if we stopped our cells from aging at age 20, we could significantly delay most diseases like cancer and heart disease although aging isn’t 100% responsible for those diseases and they will need to be addressed in their own right.
There won’t be any such thing as immortality in our foreseeable future, because asteroids, nuclear attacks, cosmic events, and even car crashes and other accidents, remain threats. But the goal of wiping out cancer and heart disease (the two biggest killers) and either genetically tricking our cells into not decaying or using technologies to repair and replace aged cells (stem cells, nanotechnology devices) will go a long way towards making the tragedy of death an infrequent occurance. We shouldn’t have to live with a life expectancy cap, knowing that we will degenerate and eventually perish for eternity. We should be able to live every day in full vibrant health, fully expecting to wake up the next morning, until an asteroid hits us every 65 Million years or so or until an 18 wheeler runs a red light and smacks us.
But if a death at age 25 is tragic (or 35% of our current life expectancy), why isn’t a death at 70 tragic? If we gradually increased our life expectancy to 200 (the oldest living human was 122 so far), wouldn’t death at 70 then be tragic too (70 is 35% of 200)? Isn’t death at any age, therefore, tragic, given that our life expectancy will likely continue to increase as our scientific knowledge increases?
Aging is a disease, like any other. Our cells are programmed by nature to decay and to divide only a finite number of times. This doesn’t have to be a certainty – we are advanced biological machines, and this is an engineering and science problem that can and will eventually be overcome. The question is: 2007 became the year of “green” thanks to a shift in public perception due to the media’s influence, leading to huge investment dollars going into alternative energy research and global warming awareness, but how long must we wait until we declare the year of “I choose to live”? When will people stand up for themselves and their right to live and to be, and demand that our society make the elimination of cancer (not just the treatment of cancer to the benefit of drug companies), heart disease and all other disease, and the elimination of biological aging, the #1 priority of our species?
Never before in human history have we had the technological means to even begin to address this difficult problem. Our ancestors (around 60 billion people by some estimates) died in order to make this world a better place and so that we could learn and build on their accomplishments. Surely there is nothing more important than the massive reduction in human suffering (losing loved ones, or experiencing chronic disease), aging, and death, if it is within our technological capability to do so. We have an obligation to pursue such a challenge with all available means (not just a handful of well-intentioned researchers) to honor those who came before us and to prevent the unnecessary deaths of most people living today.
The $20 Blogging Challenge
So here’s my challenge to you: think about this issue. Read the resource links below (if you desire) and make a post to support this issue on your blog. In exchange, I’ll do follow up posts here at wrevenue.com linking back to you from my PR6 blog and I’ll even do one better: the first 100 bloggers who do a blog post about this issue to voice their demand for serious research to stop the aging process, and who write me to give me a link to their post, will each earn $20 paid via Paypal by yours truly - don’t delay to write your post and claim your easy $20!
Resources:
- Life Expectancy Of Yeast Extended To 800 In Yeast Years
- The End of Aging? Inside the New Hunt for a Cure to Growing Old
- Aubrey de Grey thinks he knows how to defeat aging, live to 1,000.
- Stem Cells Enable Paralyzed Rats to Walk, Ready for Human Trials
- Rare Gene Mutation Plays Role in Longevity
- The Next Big Thing? (Stanley Bing, Fortune.com)
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Good post — A few words on number one — you’re exactly right — any creator would have given us life and wants us to live, not to die –
Jesus said “I have come so that they may have life and have it more abundantly”
Great post and idea. Getting media attention toward life extension is the first step.
I think most people would support life extension if the news just reported on science more often. There can be a huge break though, one I read today was imaging a virus at 4.5 angstroms, and mud slides in LA will make the news, but not the science.
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Sent the link over. This is actually a good topic. I am not new to medicine and everything related.
Forgot to post the link here too…
http://mi11ion.blogspot.com/2008/03/when-would-you-rather-die.html
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Share’d this with my visitors and gave my opinion …. http://www.everythingwebrelated.com/2008/03/06/live-forever-and-blog-about-it/
Wish you the best of luck in getting the word out.
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This was indeed a very good topic. I read and hear about the anti-aging research. But it doesn’t happen much and less new or progress about the research. I hope you topic could bring more attentions to the WWW and the world.
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Interesting points. I have saved several articles concerning longevity over the years. I hope your efforts are successful - both the research and the longevity.
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Research into stopping the ageing process
Scott is giving ?the first 100 bloggers who do a blog post about this issue to voice their demand for serious research to stop the aging process, and who write me to give me a link to their post, will each earn $20 paid via Paypal.?
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My blog entry is here:
http://woochiong.72pines.com/2008/03/07/geeks-dream-living-longer-and-living-well/
I put a bit about it at the end of my last post
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Very nice and interesting article.
I contacted you with my entry.
Thanks.
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My response to the challenge can be read here:
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Thank you Scott, your article does make me think a lot, with or without the challenge
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hey scott..
i have made a blog post to support your voice for longivity…..do have a look.. the link is…
http://yogeshgoel.blogspot.com/2008/03/living-long-or-say-indefinitely.html
do let me know if i can be of more help.
regards
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The info you described is exactly how my grandmother was when she gave up on life. Here’s my post to help the cause. http://theinsanewriter.blogspot.com/2008/03/living-longer-in-this-sane-world.html
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I personally never worry much about longevity so much as quality of life. But I’d like to see more research done in both areas, they really go hand in hand.
The article on stem cell research was a great read. I see they are making amazing breakthroughs there. Hopefully you check out a few of the articles I posted on Nanotech. I’ve been watching that area for several years and it looks like they are making some great strides in the right directions.
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here’s my post:
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Hello,
Here’s my two cents on the issue:
http://kaigorotan.com/2008/03/08/living-to-the-age-of-methuselah/
Thanks
Hi. I am in Scott. Hope you check this blog and see whether this qualifies.
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I support you!
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