X-Message-Number: 24384
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:30:42 -0400
From: Thomas Donaldson <>
Subject: CryoNet #24379 - #24383

Hi everyone!

Right now I'm busy with both PERIASTRON and several Updates to the 
GUIDE TO ANTIAGING DRUGS, so I'll try to make this msg short. 
James Swayze, though he doesn't talk like me, comes down to saying
some things I too would point out: right now, all over the world
(and not just in the US) there is a problem with rising medical
expenses. When we trace it down to just what part of the population
is producing this problem, we get OLDER PEOPLE. And until one or
another government comes down to making what looks to them like
a hard choice, this problem will get worse and worse. 

The only way to really solve it is to cure aging rather than any
of the side conditions which happen with aging ie. cancers, heart
diseases, etc, etc. Yes, if we cure aging then that will force 
many other changes: far fewer elementary schools, markedly lower
birthrates needed to maintain population, more education available
for older people, no automatic retirement & replacement of ANYONE,
less violent crime (mostly committed by younger people), less
violence generally (though conflict is NOT the same as violent
conflict, and will probably continue), people once close over time
growing apart from one another. If you and another combine to have
a child, you may well find your child to be the only child within
1000 miles (unless you move to a place where there are lots of
children). And as the centuries pass even more changes will 
pop up, even without any special genetic additions etc: someone 
400 years old will likely be much wiser and more perceptive than
someone of a mere 60 years. Those who fail to learn constantly 
and change constantly will find themselves backward and lose their
social position --- rapidly or slowly. And so they will work hard
to catch up again: just because they fell off doesn't mean they
can't get back on again (after all, they too are immortal). And
over time, this suggests that social position itself may no longer
count very much at all.

We will not find ourselves living in a paradise with no personal
problems at all. Still, those problems look far more attractive 
than those we must face now.

              Best wishes and long long life for all,

                   Thomas Donaldson

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