PhysicalChange100 t1_j3ln2xc wrote
Reply to comment by apart112358 in Arguments against calling aging a disease make no sense relative to other natural processes we attempt to fix. by Desperate_Food7354
Agreed, I'm pro immortalist technology and pro euthanasia.
I don't want a government that forces someone to live forever and I also don't want want a government that forces someone to die at a certain age.
apart112358 t1_j3lvl3h wrote
If you take the term euthanasia in its original meaning: a "good death," "nice death," or "good dying" from the point of view of the dying person and their loved ones, then that's okay for me.
Should someone want the treatment (even if only in old age) I would never refuse it. For me it would be like refusing a cancer therapy to a prisoner. For me, that would be unethical.
And yeah, no gov or a person or a ngo should force someone to take the treatment.
If we fight the disease via cell regeneration, it could be that our cells will eventually start to get sick again and treatment will be needed on an ongoing basis. This would mean that one can decide again and again.
The_Real_RM t1_j3lw58t wrote
I mean I doubt they'll kill you when your number is up, the insurance policy will simply not renew your immortality prescription once it surpassed a certain cost... depending on what policy you decide to buy...
SoylentRox t1_j3p4pzb wrote
>pro euthanasia
If you had a treatment for aging, most physical diseases and effective treatments for most psychiatric conditions, how can you allow euthanasia?
Any problem a person has - whether they feel they don't want to live anymore, or have a currently incurable condition - can be fixed. Maybe not now but since there's no aging they can wait however long it will take for a cure. And if they feel they don't want to live any more, you can connect up nanowires to deep inside their brain and or sensors, and there is probably a problem you will be able to detect with this level of technology.
Do you then just kill them, knowing their impulse to die is coming from broken circuitry in your brain you can fix? (or again, wait for a future cure).
Do you not even do the testing and just accept their wish to die without inserting the probes? You know there is probably a problem with their brain.
PhysicalChange100 t1_j3q1lvw wrote
Or maybe people are just different than you.
Doesn't mean there's something wrong with the CirCuitRy in their brain.
People have different desires and different perspectives, and philosophies in life. And they should have the freedom to pursue those things without an authoritarian telling them what to do.
SoylentRox t1_j3q1rto wrote
I am saying we keep em alive until we can check first. If there is nothing wrong with their brain sure, suicide away.
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