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

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