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Such is human nature, that if we were all hit on the head with a baseball bat once a week, philosophers would soon discover many amazing benefits of being hit on the head with a baseball bat: It toughens us, renders us less fearful of lesser pains, makes bat-free days all the sweeter. But if people are not currently being hit with baseball bats, they will not volunteer for it....

It is absurd that we are born, it is absurd that we die. Jean Paul Sarte

I sometimes hear people say, "Wouldn’t it be boring to live forever?" But would it be more exciting to be dead? thefirstimmortal

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion, but clearly all religions come from that hope. thefirstimmortal

Aging and death do seem to be what Nature has planned for us. But what if we have other plans? thefirstimmortal

AdG: I want this change because it will save more lives than it costs. This question has been carefully analysed by experts and it’s clear that we are vastly over-cautious now in approving drugs. That over-caution is not the fault of the FDA or the government, because it reflects public attitudes: every death from an unsafe medical treatment causes an outcry and a lot of legal action, whereas we turn a blind eye to death from the unavailability of good drugs. But when aging is recognised as defeatable, public opinion will become more rational in this regard, and so will public policy. Aubrey de Grey http://www.betterhumans.com/blogs/proyas/archive/2008/08/04/An-interview-with-Aubrey-de-Grey.aspx

"We have no right to make that choice on behalf of future society by delaying the development of these therapies and thereby making them choose aging rather than having fewer kids. -Aubrey deGrey, BBC news

- I do not want immortality but I want to avoid horrible diseases with side effect that we are not going to die of old age anymore Aubrey de Grey in Brussels, 1 October 2008

Voir page http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td-ImgIn_cQ&NR=1 pour citation BBC "How would you like to live for ever? ... You need to think about these things because there is a man who believes that the end through old age of death might be just around the corner. <Do you want to live forever.>BBC

Regardez autour de vous: devant, derrière, à droite, à gauche, un seul de vous 5 sera envore vivant dans 50 ans si nous ne faisons pas suffisamment. Et si nous étions à Saint-Josse, ce serait plutôt aucun (DC)

Lutter contre le vieillissement, c'est notamment lutter contre l'inégalité sociale. Les personnes pauvres sont en moyenne les premières à souffrir et à mourir des suites du vieillissement. Les riches vivent plus longtemps et en meilleure santé. Une lutte prioritaire pour un vieillissement de plus en plus lointain est donc une lutte qui bénéficie à tous les citoyens mais en commençant par les plus pauvres.

La lutte pour une vie plus longue est aussi une lutte sociale car, de manière générale, ce sont les personnes les plus faibles qui sont d'abord touchées par le vieillissement. (DC)

Why is it noble to want a cure for cancer, heart attacks, stroke, dementia, blindness, hearing loss, osteoperosis, or Parkinson's disease when it's so evil to want a cure for aging? It makes no sense!

cyborgdreamer1er décembre 2008

We want to live forever, and we're getting there. Bill Clinton 1999 Source http://www.rand.org/scitech/stpi/ourfuture/Rosetta/millennium.html

Voir aussi http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Immortality