Fight Aging!

That living, being alive and active and enjoying the potential that this brings, is good in and of itself is an axiom for those who work in medicine, including those who work towards the tools needed to extend healthy life and rejuvenate the old. If life is not good and valuable, then why bother? Yet if you look around at what does and does not take place in this world of ours, you might be forgiven for thinking that most people do not in fact place as great a value on life as they might. Here is an article on this theme from the Movement for Indefinite Life Extension.

We have become really good at being indifferent to the most widespread forms of death, in order to spare ourselves from stressing out on futilely trying to do something about it. Now that we have the tools and techniques, and the times have changed, we have to change that way of thinking from indifference back toward letting that horror affect us. Horror benefits us in that it is our cue to be driven to action to make sure that the horror can't happen again.

A few days ago I was thinking about a typical farm hand of Medieval times, walking outside to smell the heavy wet grass and earth of a cold wet spring day. Focus on your heartbeat, feel it pulsing. Theirs pulsed like that. They thought of their hearts stopping and of how it couldn't possibly be lost to the dust of history anytime soon. You think that, too. Their hearts are lost to the dust of history. Yours is next. So many tangled groves in forests have had the wind blowing through them for all of these years, without one person, without one spoken word, in a place near a stream, where there was once a mighty, crackling stone fireplace that warmed multiple generations of families across the 6th through 8th centuries. It was a place that hosted countless memories which later tormented the souls of dying, now long-dead grandfathers.

They don't deserve to be dead. They deserve what they earned: the world that is paying exponentially exciting, satiating, and fullfillingly valuable dividends today. This is an incredibly motivating and driving factor in what pushes me to pursue indefinite life extension. People take on a variety of diverse augmentations over time, becoming unique collections of intriguing insight - dynamic power tools for slicing and dicing the elements. We can't afford for these wealths of rare and powerful abilities and resources to be pillaged and killed off. Sometimes it seems as if life-extensionists like me have to explain to people why it's bad to let people be killed before we can get down to business in a worldwide effort to reach the goals that can get this done.

Link: http://www.rationalargumentator.com/index/blog/2014/05/motivated-time-prospectors/