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The Politics of Ending Aging
Personal and Political Tips to Slow Aging
The most important political issue of our times is aging.
Aging is responsible for disabling and killing far more people than any other disease — and aging is indeed a disease.
It is time to classify biological aging as a disease. — 2015 publication by a team of international researchers
Just consider that if we cured cancer we’d add just 2.1 years to the average human lifespan and if we cured ALL cardiovascular diseases we’d add 1.5 years. And yet we spend billions of dollars on trying to cure those age-related diseases, which of course we should do, but virtually nothing on curing aging itself, which could theoretically add an infinite amount of years to our lifespans. There isn’t a country on Earth that has committed significant resources to cure or at least slow aging.
And yet, whatever generation, country, and organization ends up curing it will go down in history for potentially all of history. You win the game when you defeat the big boss — the Grim Reaper.
