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Do you plan to off yourself once your body gets too crippled?

It's my plan! I don't want to be hobbling around on a walker. It's onto the next life for me, or better yet, nothing at all!!
basilfawlty8931-35, M
No, I plan to reverse aging through genetic engineering and senescent cell removal. Aging is just epigenetic changes to your body due to damage from metabolism. It has been successfully reversed in mice and the mouse lifespan doubled. It can be done in living organisms by OSKM gene editing using a modified AAV virus.
basilfawlty8931-35, M
@IstillmissEP there won't be human trials until 2025 because the FDA won't approve it if it's not shown to work in animals and cure age related diseases. It's already been tested on mice and being tested on dogs right now by Rejuvenate Bio and other companies like Salk, Turn.Bio and the SENS research foundation.

You want the FDA to be shown it cures age related diseases and reverses aging in animals first because the trials for humans take longer because of ethical reasons. George Church gas signed himself up as one of the first rest subjects.
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basilfawlty8931-35, M
@IstillmissEP well of they get sticky there are other countries with more relaxed laws on ethical human testing on volunteer basis. However most of the researchers are based in the US, Spain or Brazil. You could now technically get telomerase injected to lengthen your telomeres in Colombia, but there is a risk of oncogenic mutation.
SW-User
Yep, me too. I don't have any relatives or friends that would miss me so there's no point to sticking around physically disabled and being a burden on medical staff. Every year i run up the second highest mountain in Victoria called Mt Feathertop. It's about 22km round trip up to about 6000ft. Have been doing it just before winter every year since i was 15. One day i'll get to the summit and just die and they'll find my body frozen in about 50 years when all the snow melts. I'll leave you my benzodiazapine collection in my will 馃ゴ

Here's a pic from the top before the snow.
Allelse36-40, M
@SW-User BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Waving your cane around.
SW-User
@Allelse lol yes, here's me trying to surf in a few months
Allelse36-40, M
@SW-User BAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! With your depends on and everything
Sroonaka61631-35, M
Once my body gets too crippled I would like to take one last ride on a ship.
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Miram31-35, F
You're still on about this?
Allelse36-40, M
@Miram I'd say I wish I could remember ever talking to you, but, I think I'll manage hahahaha.
Miram31-35, F
@Allelse epilepsy probably 馃樁
Allelse36-40, M
Probably what?
PlumBerries31-35, F
[c=#7700B2]tried that already and yeah not going through that again. Will just hope I get hit by a train or something by accident or whatever someday when I am around 40[/c]
That鈥檚 what you think meow 馃惐... but I bet you鈥檒l chicken out when the time comes.
Allelse36-40, M
@ToastyPickles Chicken out? Why?

 
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