X-Message-Number: 2131 From: Bruce White 3807 <> Subject: CRYONICS: re: Evolution of Aging Date: Mon, 19 Apr 93 18:55:32 PDT > Re: Evolution of Ageing > > Of course there are other signs that the time for doing away with aging has > come. The number of elderly people has been increasing rapidly in Europe, the > US, and (if anything, even more) in Japan. And since these people don't just > have a chronological age, but suffer from all kinds of diseases and conditions, > the cost of maintaining them goes up and up and up. There does not seem much > interest in the other choice, that of lining all the elderlies up against a > wall and shooting them: so the only really moral solution is to fix them so > that they no longer suffer from all those diseases and conditions. And to do > that, we must make them young again. Well I heard once that there was a tradition in Japan of taking an elderly relatives out to the mountains and leaving them to die in the cold... Is this a myth? If not, is it still being practiced in any parts of Japan? Bruce Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=2131