Bart119 comments on Near Concerns About Life Extension - Less Wrong

-9 Post author: Bart119 08 June 2012 07:12PM

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Comment author: Bart119 09 June 2012 01:37:22AM 0 points [-]

Yes, and I think we should stop paying for some current procedures that prolong decrepitude, as well as not funding new ones.

Comment author: [deleted] 09 June 2012 03:34:17PM *  3 points [-]

Yes, and I think we should stop paying for some current procedures that prolong decrepitude.

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:

One study assessed the will to live among 414 hospitalized patients aged 80 to 98 years, presumably representing the frailer end of the distribution of the “old old”. 40.8% of respondents were unwilling to exchange any time in their current state of health for a shorter life in excellent health, and 27.8% were willing to give up at most 1 month of 12 in return for excellent health.