Bart119 comments on Near Concerns About Life Extension - Less Wrong
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Yes, and I think we should stop paying for some current procedures that prolong decrepitude, as well as not funding new ones.
That is highly problematic, since that will result in more strokes and mycardial infractions that - aside from causing death - result in an increase in morbidity.
And what if people want to live longer, even if the extra years added will have more decrepitude. From a paper by Nick Bostrom: