Change Versus Suffering and Death
Here, via OpEdNews.com, is another illustration of the degree to which people see change as a terrible thing, the counterweight when discussing healthy life extension. We hear speakers weighing death and suffering for billions - versus those billions living in good health to see and bring about change - as a choice that requires thought. Amazing; but human psychology is indeed exceptional in ways both good and bad. "It's because of our abbreviated lives that we struggle to fit all the things we want to do, into the little time there is to do them. Bitterness, the acute sense of failure that overtakes so many, results because of nothing more complicated than the repetitious experience of 'That's all. Times up,' as the carny opens the gate on your tilt-a-whirl before you're ready to get off. When science over-runs everything we thought we knew, our Gods, our institutions, all of our notions of governments before and since, even the ethical and moral regards we see as our values, the adjustment humanity will be forced to make will be the most traumatic, but bitter-sweet it has ever suffered." This is just silly and overwrought - people will be people whether they are 20, 80, or hundreds of years old. What "trauma" could possibly match the billion deaths by aging that take place every two decades?
Link: http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_jon_faul_070114_science__26_ponce_dele.htm