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Molly's avatar

Something I have always wanted to ask the Silicone Valley billionaires who are promoting (at least their own) vastly greater longevity: Who the hell do you think wants you around that long?

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Leigh Horne's avatar

I don't know about others, but at age 76 I am still healthy and cognitively intact, and yet I can already feel something you might all 'essential vitality' winding down. Which doesn't bother me, because I accept it as normative. I can easily foresee a time when I might just lie down for a nap and fail to wake up. Where's the tragedy in that? I have lived a full and happy life, raised a child, had a professional career, maintained a home and many warm relationships, but all things change and eventually come to an end. And I definitely never want to live in a nursing home, no matter how well appointed, much less become chronically ill. So I've often wondered about the apparent anxiety among the tech elite about death. I suspect it has something to do with their massive egos, or has become something of a competitive game: Who will love longest? As if that's necessarily a good thing. Or maybe they're afraid that there is a life after death and they will be asked to account for their greed.

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