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Re: Old Age is the leading cause of death everywhere, globally.

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On Sun, 02 Apr 2017 22:36:41 +0100, Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> wrote:

> On Sun, 02 Apr 2017 20:18:18 +0100, "James Wilkinson Sword"
> <imvalid@somewear.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 02 Apr 2017 20:13:37 +0100, Jeff-Relf.Me <.> wrote:
>>
>>> Old Age is the leading cause of death everywhere, globally.
>>>
>>> Even now, at 57 years old, decades seem like minutes to me;
>>> it's better to die at 80, having been a joy to yourself and others,
>>> than to live to 90, making everyone miserable.
>>
>> Best would be to invent everlasting life.  I thought stem cells were the start of this.
>
> Research isn't there yet to keep a complete human alive, but they do
> have the 'immortal' cells of Henrietta Lacks to play around with.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
> http://www.npr.org/2011/03/18/134622044/tracing-the-immortal-cells-of-henrietta-lacks
> In 1951, an African-American woman named Henrietta Lacks was diagnosed
> with terminal cervical cancer. She was treated at Johns Hopkins
> University, where a doctor named George Gey snipped cells from her
> cervix without telling her. Gey discovered that Lacks' cells could not
> only be kept alive, but would also grow indefinitely.

So to live forever, you need to get cancer?

It must be possible to seperate those two things.

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