A Reading Of: Lifespan by David A. Sinclair PhD
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as a species, we are living much longer than ever, but not much better. Not at all. Over the past century, we have gained additional years, but not additional life. Not life worth living anyway. And so most of us, when we think about living to 100 still think, God forbid, because we've seen what those final decades look like and for most people, most of the time, they don't look very appealing at all. Ventilators and drug cocktails, broken hips and diapers, chemotherapy and radiation surgery after surgery after surgery and hospital bills, My God, the hospital bills were dying slowly and painfully. People in rich countries often spent a decade or more suffering through illness after illness at the ends of their lives. We think this is normal as lifespans continue to increase in coronations. This will become the fate of billions of additional people