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December 20, 2007
Instant death
Imagine a world where instead of aging and dying the way we do, we age slowly, don't get the diseases associated with aging and then one day, without any explanation, we just drop dead. Imagine that there wasn't any warning time, any real decline, just off you go at age 106. This is what is happening to lab mice right now that are taking anti-aging drugs.
If that were to happen to us, would death be a lot more casual?
"Why isn't Bob at this meeting?"
"Well, he just died a couple of hours ago."
"Really, geez. I needed him to give us those results. Too bad. All right, next on the agenda. I'll notify HR about Bob."
Because this type of death would not be preceded by pain and suffering, or expectation. Just a long, healthy life and then, you're done. I wonder if that's the way I would like to go.
The odd thing about these mice is that you can almost never say exactly what it was that killed them. It's not obvious, as in regular mice. They just die. Has a book been written about this?
Posted by JonasParker at December 20, 2007 2:16 PM
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