We may already know how we will cure death—but should we?

Quartz ^ | March 29, 2014 | Christopher Mims

[caww]

Only way to cure death is be sinless....”Sin brings forth death”....we are born with a nature to sin.

[caww]

Only way to cure death is be sinless....”Sin brings forth death”....we are born with a nature to sin.

[Gasshog]

um... the Resurrection is Eternal Life.

No other way.

[Defiant]

What will we do when some portion of humanity refuses to die?

Kill the bastards.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

We may already know how we will cure death—but should we?

Ah, yes - "should we?". The relentless drive of statists and liberals to convert personal choices into decisions to be made by the collective - or by a gaggle of Harvard-educated drones with law degrees who claim to speak for the rest of us, anyway.

First, the kind of longevity talked about by people like Aubrey DeGrey would not cure death - it would cure aging and the various physical afflictions which accompany aging. Modern medicine already wages an inefficient, piecemeal war on the symptoms which accompany aging - heart disease, cancer, glaucoma, etc. The longevity approach would target the root cause: senescence. Death would still occur because of illness, physical trauma or because people simply choose not to extend their lives.

Second, this topic is far too important a matter to be decided for us by the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama or their political descendants - screw the "should we" nonsense.

[Kozak]

Eventually, everyone will have a fatal accident.
Statistical certainty.

[Aria]

Sez me.

[Organic Panic]

Can they cure getting run over by a freight train.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

[blackpacific]

The Second Death as St. Augustine defines it, is living in an immortal passible body. Hell for short. I’m with St. Augustine on this one, avoid the Second Death, at all costs.

As my Christian brethren are pointing out here, the only way to avoid the Second Death is by accepting the redemption offered by the one Mediator between God and man, Jesus Christ. These winners will receive an immortal glorified body. No more tears, Eternal bliss with the Blessed Trinity, an endless supply of fruit, great golf courses, etc...

Mathematically, repairing the 37 trillion or so cells in the human body one by one is not feasible. However, even more dire is the fact that the microbes living in the human body outnumber the human cells 10:1. I suppose if these machines could repair 100 cells per hour, you would keep pace with the destruction over a course of 42 million years.

But it does make for great movie plots.

[right way right]

“Nobody has lived forever yet.”

Except God.

With my luck I would almost get there and get hit by a damn bus.

[Old Yeller]

Who wants stupid people around forever? Cure stupidity first.

[right way right]

With my luck I would almost get smart enough and get hit by a damn bus.

[chris37]

But I do not want to stay here forever.

This place gets extremely annoying after a bit.

[galtman]

Not going to happen ... but if it did ... can we makes sure that liberals don’t get access to the technology ... a world without idiot progressives would indeed be heaven on earth!

[dr_lew]

Never call a man lucky while he is still alive - Roman proverb

[GeronL]

lol

[Foundahardheadedwoman]

‘Kill the bastards.’ Absolutely true. LOL

[Right Wing Assault]

...but their ardor is so intense, it’s hard to call them scientists

Scientists can't have ardor? This author needs to read some biographies.

[PistolPaknMama]

I did 2DV! Oops!