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Originally posted by Capt. Carrera
You still miss my point. So let me drop being subtle.
When you refer to older people living much longer, and being a "burden", you are not talking about people who are currently in their seventies. Heck, you are not even talking about people who are in there forties. People of this age will not live long enough to reap that much return from modern medicine.
Who you unknowingly refer to is YOURSELF. Especially if you're less than thirty. THIS is the generation that will benefit from DNA-based-medicine. This is the generation that will easily see140 year life spans.
Oh sure, you think you'll only live to be sixty-five or seventy. But it's much, much, more likely that you'll surpass the century mark by a wide margin. Leaving other to wish you'd kick off...
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I think I covered this above, so to quote myself:
"What criteria would you use for yourself? My own would be when I'm no longer self sufficient or started to get heavy medical problems. I would want to be out of it before I became a burden. I have had a mostly very good life and death no longer frightens me, pain, lingering illness and the thought of being a burden does."
Long life does not imply good health or good quality of life or absence from senile dementia.