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http://www.telegraph...al-history.html Today I have an 83-year-old organ donor. Could mention the M Prize New Organ thingy or just life extension itself perhaps.

One called "Let's Not Be Afraid To Talk About Death"

http://www.telegraph...bout-death.html

A whole blog about Death amongst other stuff!

http://www.thedeathw...blogspot.co.uk/

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Dementia is big in the news today:

http://www.bbc.co.uk...health-18115205

http://www.independe...rs-7768841.html

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One about early on-set Alzheimers:

http://www.bbc.co.uk...gazine-18067401

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An article on brain aging from The Philipines:
http://www.philstar....ubCategoryId=75

About sun aging...could appeal to someone's vanity.
http://www.boston.co...uUBK/story.html
http://www.dailytele...r-1226385258268

About senior atheletes aging more slowly:
http://www.theglobea...article4234494/

One about shrinking when you get older:
http://www.news-pres...ewswell|text||s

About benefits for older people. Could leave comment about why they even want to get old in the first place:
http://www.masoncoun...s/article/53572

Challenge of aging and globalisation:
http://www.nationalj...growth-20120606

About the potential of an aging population for a source of income for Europe:
http://www.huffingto..._b_1573432.html

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Shocking and vile story about elderly left hungry in a care home:
http://www.telegraph...ion-report.html

An article where Terry Pratchett aadmits to his fear of "dying badly":
http://www.dailymail...o=feeds-newsxml

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A really happy story of the oldest living sisters. Okay it's sad that they are suffering the curse of aging but it's happy that they have lived so long.
http://www.independe...rs-7827788.html

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An article about certain drugs prolonging the lives of rheumatoid arthritis sufferers...could be room for a comment about extending life in general perhaps?

http://www.telegraph...olong-life.html

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Over 60 is the new over 40:

http://style.uk.msn....he-new-under-40

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An article about people being more likely to die on their birthdays than any other day. Someone could perhaps comment there:

http://uk.lifestyle....-birthday-.html

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I commented at the links of your posts 68 and 69 here now.

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brokenportal, on 11 June 2012 - 07:43 PM, said:

I commented at the links of your posts 68 and 69 here now.

Brilliant.

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An article asking why we age. It is in four places, all with space for comment. I think it's worth comments on all personally:

http://www.latimes.c...,0,477212.story

http://news.sciencem...-our-genes.html

http://www.msnbc.msn...e/#.T9bZzbX4JJc

Something about your aging clock being affected by father and grandfather's age:
http://www.philly.co.../158490885.html

Music training improves the aging process:
http://timesleader.c...-process,162285

One about an aging agency meeting in Canada:
http://www.publicopi...g-info-sessions

One about seniors in Calgary mocking stereotypes of old people. Poor souls getting old...look on that photo like they have so much life left in them. :(
http://metronews.ca/...h-prank-videos/


http://www.livescien...genome-age.html

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One about the elderly being able to sue if hospitals deny them care based on age. Perhaps room for a comment about how age=wisdom and should be preserved:

http://www.dailymail...o=feeds-newsxml
http://www.telegraph...to-elderly.html

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Okay, it's about the environment but perhaps there's room for a comment and link saying about how if we all lived longer we may actually give a hoot about the planet we have to live on:
http://www.guardian....s?newsfeed=true

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This link is about time eventually running out but I'm sure someone on here could put a life extension spin on the whole thing:
http://www.telegraph...completely.html

Another article on space exploration. Maybe someone can say something along the lines of us living to see the universe?
http://www.guardian....e?newsfeed=true

An article about how patronising the elderly should be on a par with racism. We could argue that we shouldnb't allow the outrage of letting people even get to that old and sick stage in the first instance:
http://www.dailymail...o=feeds-newsxml

One about the elderly being left with no human righrts. Again, can argue along the lines of my above suggestion. However, this team is smart and probably has way better ideas:
http://www.express.c...no-human-rights

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"All of our fabulous technologies depend upon dwindling resources that we’ve uncovered here on Earth, like the ancient waste of creatures that’s morphed into crude oil. So while futurists claim that biological immortality has never looked so possible, the only planet known to sustain biological life has never looked more creaturely. Never has the hope for immortality looked so hubristic and foolish."

http://www.religiond...o_live_forever/

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brokenportal, on 19 June 2012 - 03:21 AM, said:

"All of our fabulous technologies depend upon dwindling resources that we’ve uncovered here on Earth, like the ancient waste of creatures that’s morphed into crude oil. So while futurists claim that biological immortality has never looked so possible, the only planet known to sustain biological life has never looked more creaturely. Never has the hope for immortality looked so hubristic and foolish."

http://www.religiond...o_live_forever/

Maybe if we were here long enough, we'd stop grabbing what we can because we knew the end of the road would be upon us so quickly.

"So while futurists claim that biological immortality has never looked so possible, the only planet known to sustain biological life has never looked more creaturely." Am I the only one that thinks that sentence sounds a little...silly?

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An article about aging and dying in US. Space for comments like "why the heck are we letting this happen." It is quite a horrible article:
http://www.guardian....death-revisited

Edited by Droplet, 20 June 2012 - 05:58 AM.

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An article about a teenager killed by a dementia patient driving. Could be space for something saying that we should try to cure it etc. and how cruel aging is:
http://www.telegraph...wrong-side.html

An article about a 104-year-old mother looking after her 87-year old daughter with dementia:
http://www.dailymail...7-dementia.html

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A story about a potential new liver and eyes being grown in the lab. Perhaps there is room for a comment about how the future will bring brilliant advances and of course, an extension in our current measly life spans:
http://www.livescien...lab-organs.html

One about slowing aging by blocking a protein:
http://www.medicalne...cles/246914.php

An article how getting old can mean being productive..someone needs to stomp on those rose tinted specs! Yes, there may be some good but someone needs a heads up about the myriad of bad:
http://www.ktvq.com/...ght-be-awesome/

Those scientific breakthroughs have made me cheerful this morning...it's a bit of hope on a dereary morning.

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"It is a kind of ideology, almost a religion, and is much more prevalent in the US than in the UK. It is in part an overconfidence in technology from the 20th century, and has got mixed up with science fiction."

"My charge against immortalism is that it is wasteful"

"The indignation that people express at not getting their pensions until they're 67 shows that the idea of a life cycle is firmly rooted"

http://www.newscient...=mg21428690.400

You need a subscription to New Scientist to respond, if anybody happens to have one then please do.

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I responded to this one here.

Droplet, on 22 June 2012 - 06:03 AM, said:

An article how getting old can mean being productive..someone needs to stomp on those rose tinted specs! Yes, there may be some good but someone needs a heads up about the myriad of bad:
http://www.ktvq.com/...ght-be-awesome/

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brokenportal, on 24 June 2012 - 03:02 AM, said:

"It is a kind of ideology, almost a religion, and is much more prevalent in the US than in the UK. It is in part an overconfidence in technology from the 20th century, and has got mixed up with science fiction."

"My charge against immortalism is that it is wasteful"

"The indignation that people express at not getting their pensions until they're 67 shows that the idea of a life cycle is firmly rooted"

Religion? I'd much rather place my faith in science and technology saving me than religion that is unprovable. I'm not saying there is or isn't a God but at least science has some testable and provable theories in it. After all, when you go to a doctor he doesn't go and ask God to heal you, he uses substances that have been proven in tests to work. This in itself is a form of life extension and is ever-evolving to enable us to live a lot longer than if we relied on nature alone.

How many things started out as science fiction then became science fact? I remember as a child being told a story at school about a man who wrote a science fiction book about the atomic bomb. Everyone laughed at this preposterous idea but it did come true.

How can immortalism be wasteful? More time to grow, contemplate and place more things into action. Most of us only figure out what we want when we get older. It's like you spend all of your life solving a puzzle and those that do it or come close to the answers get deleted - Now THAT'S wasteful. Waste of life, waste of learning and waste of creativity.

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Today I find this:

The U Bend theory of happy aging. Yes, aging is a U-Bend - it's everything you've worked for being flushed down the pan for no real reason.
http://www.mailtribu.../LIFE/206240308

Pfizer study into attitudes towards aging. It says there's no cure for aging...well presently not but there's probably room for a comment to say that someone is trying.
http://www.poughkeep...&nclick_check=1

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Droplet, on 21 June 2012 - 06:02 AM, said:

An article about a 104-year-old mother looking after her 87-year old daughter with dementia:
http://www.dailymail...7-dementia.html

I tried to respond to this one but the commenting for it is closed now.

"When people ask what her secret is, the 104-year-old tells them she stays away from sugar and doctors."

'"My grandma doesn't want to die. She doesn't want to see my mom left alone', Albert Garcia said. 'I believe that's why my grandma has been sticking around all these years. She thinks her daughter really needs her.'"

He thinks that his grandmother is staying alive for pretty much only that reason. He cant fathom that any other reasons might be adequate enough of reasons to want to be alive. Alive, as though that were a petty, disposable thing. As though being alive were a disposable commodity. Its like some people think we are like leaves. As though raising a family and exploring .05% of the earth were the extend of the opportunity that being alive provided us. I think she is sticking around because not being alive is an utterly useless proposition to add nonchalantly to your schedule.




Look at what aging has done to them, look at how close to the edge they are. What is the difference between this and waiting in a torture dungeon for your turn at the gallows? I would consider helping with an effort to make not fighting aging illegal, conscripting people to help squelch the raging inferno of this madness.

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Droplet, on 20 June 2012 - 05:57 AM, said:

An article about aging and dying in US. Space for comments like "why the heck are we letting this happen." It is quite a horrible article:
http://www.guardian....death-revisited

The commenting on that one is closed too. I wish they didn't do that. I'm glad you posted it, most of these have been great related articles that people that support his cause need to be addressing as often as we can.

“The death of our elderly parents – especially if they are suffering from dementia – has rarely been a subject that writers or editors want to touch. It's too much of a downer. But no more is that the case.”

“In her classic 1963 expose of the funeral industry, The American Way of Death, Jessica Mitford noted how much of a contributory factor Americans' desire to euphemize death was. The opposite is the case with Loh, Wolff, and Klein.“

“What Loh, Wolff, and Klein have done – at considerable personal pain to themselves – is help make clear-headed consideration of such exits more possible and permissible than ever before.”

They think we should kill off the dying closer to the beginning of the start of the debilitation and pain rather than at the end. They can’t fathom that maybe the cure for pain is to cure the pain and not lop off the head and push the animal into a hole. They are proud of these three for coming out and writing articles espousing this solution, saying that,

“Since last March, three essays on dying parents, the first in the Atlantic by radio talk-show host Sandra Tsing Loh, the second in New York by media columnist Michael Wolff, the third in Time by political reporter Joe Klein, have drawn widespread attention and mark a new trend,”

Let that inspire us all, because if three people with really bad solutions can be thought to change the trend in thinking on this issue, we, with the actual solutions can surely do it. Let’s stick with it. Let’s stick with the blogs and the articles and the things like this internet networking team so we can continue to help spread this vital message.

Edited by brokenportal, 24 June 2012 - 07:53 PM.

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One about "hacking" Stephen Hawking's brain. Could be room for a comment about death taking great minds etc.
http://www.dailymail...o=feeds-newsxml

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An article about vitamin D supplements staving off disability and mobility issues in the elderly. However, there are many more links to the right and all can take comments.
http://www.medicalne...cles/246555.php

One about occupational therapists in Oregon being encouraged to pursue a certificate in gerontology. A long shot but maybe such a university could be asked about considering backing research to fight aging:
http://www.pacificu....6&CATEGORY_ID=1

An article about the oldest known-woman in Europe dying at 114 in France. This one is crying out for a comment about how this didn't have to happen and should be prevented in future:
http://www.news.com....r-1226389612128

An article about pensioners in Britain being the age group with "fastest rising" incomes. Someone could maybe say something about how it's a shame that they will never live that long to enjoy it all etc.:
http://uk.news.yahoo...-040512832.html

Edited by Droplet, 26 June 2012 - 06:08 AM.

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Don't know if a response to this would be deemed inappropriate but here's one about what Nora Ephron taught us about aging:
http://www.huffingto..._n_1629079.html

"Testosterone decline isn't a neccessary part of aging." Someone could comment that aging itself is not neccessary and undesirable:
http://www.theatlant...f-aging/258948/

An article about the aging workforce of Framingham. Of course by curing aging, it would not be an issue:
http://www.metrowest...-force-is-aging

Women, aging and economic growth:
http://www.huffingto..._b_1627116.html

Issue of South Korea's aging society:
http://www.chinapost...outh-Koreas.htm

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Music Superstar Amy Grant on Caring for An Aging Parent." As this involves someone famous, a comment here may lead people to actually think about our cause if it is mentioned. Perhaps she would also be an outreach candidate if anyone is good at handling things sensitively (I'm not).
http://www.forbes.co...n-aging-parent/

A Canadian article about an upcoming dementia epidemic:
http://www.huffingto..._n_1626945.html
Another article on the matter:
http://www.cbc.ca/ne...erence-584.html

"Aging can offer opportunities." Yes..like the opportunity to suffer, rot and be deleted needlessly. Oh joy!
http://www.nctimes.c...8e502bd2d2.html

An article about an art exhibition in Scotland for dementia patients:
http://www.banffshir...ia-22062012.htm