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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:57:28 EDT
Subject: Re: CryoNet #22527

It never fails to amaze me that "intelligent" people can be so myopic when it 
comes to longevity.  Sure there are charlitans out there ready to capitalize 
on the most remote of chances.  On the other hand, the future (especially more 
than 20 yeras out), is not completely described by the past.  In basing the 
invalidity of anti-aging on current and past proven achievements, we avoid the 
moral issues associated with the advancing technologies.  Nanotech, cell 

therapy, organ replacement without immunosuppression, and gene therapy will all
play very important roles in the proximate future.  Even telomeres will be 

addressed within the next 4-5 years.  It is truely a head-in-the-sand idea that 
life 
span won't be affected in the next 120 years.  The impact on society will be 
far more positive than negative as mostly productive intelligent people will 

be the primary beneficiaries, theerby benefitting everyone else.  My goal is to
minimize the effects of aging with anything of potential benefit outweighing 
risk.  I hope to make use of many yet undeveloped technologies in the next 5 
decades,  possibly extending my lifespan by then be another 5 decades, and so 
on.  
James R Hughes, MD, PhD


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