There is a new-ish option that should be explored ...

2008-11-06T16:53:00.000-08:00

There is a new-ish option that should be explored if you DON'T wish to die AND you are not willing to bet it all on the technologies that WILL allow massive life extension in decades to come. Because death is thought of by most as 'inevitable', the Lemming like behaviour that most of the population is engaged in right now is justified.
It will continue to be justified until SENS research and similar come to their inevitable fruition.

At SENS3 we saw that the likelyhood of that happening for 40 year olds is about 50/50 only.

That is unacceptable and there IS another way.

Right now it is not available.
It COULD however become technically feasible in 5 - yes FIVE years, IF the money is spent.

REVERSIBLE suspension - if perfected - could take you on a 10 year jump into the future, where there is a good chance that whatever is killing you will be treatable if not curable.

There is GOOD evidence that reversible suspension is nearly here.
1. Anaesthetists NOW can do operations that involve taking you down to temperatures ~15C/59F, draining ALL your blood, so that a neurosurgeon can operate on your brain without having bleeding to distract him/her.
2. Scientists who are interested in transplant technology can NOW take individual organs down to -145C/-229F where they could be stored for years, and then brought them back working well enough to keep an animal alive. NOTE: the kidney is potentially the hardest organ in the body to do this to, hence the excitement!

IF you can move from doing 1 kidney, to doing the whole body, then you have reversible suspension - and quite frankly - as a Medical Specialist myself, I have difficulty understanding why there is not at least 100 million rather than 5 million spent on this per year!?

There is a solution.
It will come in 30 years OR it could come in 5 if we want it to...
People have a choice.
They are either ignorant of that choice, OR choose to act like lemmings and complain about the status quo rather than change it as is obviously now possible in the near future.

Complain or do something, it is our choice.

For more see PauseMe.org - OR consider supporting the guys who I have met on my last trip to the USA - '21st Century Medicine' who did the transplant work and I feel should be encouraged to go on to more ambitious work.

Regards
Dr AdrianT

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There is a new-ish option that should be explored ...