Dear DK Reader:
Pls. see Introduction to this Diary above.
This is the extended portion of the Diary ie,
Part 2. (See Below)
Given the above definition it does not seem unreasonable to me to assume that unless one is killed, the repeated drinking of such fabled springs water would provide for an eternally YOUNG life here on earth.
day and are aware that, “The risk of developing Alzheimer's disease increases with age, and by 85, the risk is about 50 percent”. (Ref.:www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_127866.httm)
Further, say you are that same male with Erectile Dysfunction. You also have Sleep Apnea and have to contrive to sleep with a CPap mask apparatus, which when on your face makes you look like the human flesh eating character in the movie “Silence of the Lambs” and can, at its worst, interfere with getting a good nights sleep just about as much as getting up three to four times during the night to urinate. Thus, you find yourself feeling sleepy & light headed during the daytime and you doze off when trying to enjoy reading an interesting book or using the computer.
Say also that you find yourself taking gobs of pills for your multiple other medical conditions (which for you are not indisputably bound to be lethal for you but cause you to waste a considerable amount of your retirement years time being spent in doctors offices waiting to seen.
Yes, grant that as that same you do enelderly person you do enjoy going out for dinner, going to the theater, seeing sporting exhibitions and participating in various groups activities where however, unless you can become extremely engrossed in whatever that activity is, you do not manage to escape the persistent aching of your Arthritis or Fibromyalgia.
You, as the elderly example above, may not feel depressed but on the other hand you do not enjoy that sense of well being that you can recall experiencing from your much younger years. Also, of much more immediacy, to the theme of going on living forever, is the feeling of dread thinking in advance about the preparation procedure for the repeated Colonoscopies to come for you. After all, no use to add ColoRectal cancer to your forevermore medical miseries.
So then, I ask you to consider immortality NOT in the sense of it being accompanied with eternal youth but rather from a point of view of the often quite tired very elderly person.
(*1) My answer to the question of achieving everlasting life ON EARTH , at my age 83, is to say that I would at least like to make it to 100. After that age, I can conceive that continued physical existence here might well prove to be no more than “HELL on Earth”.
Note! The Grant has been made for a three year duration. Professor Fischer has commented such as to invite a “Check back in three years” for study findings. If I (dollparty) am still here in three years I will strive to provide followup to the Professor’s research findings for any Daily Kos readers.
Poll
If you were the elderly man alluded to in the Diary above would you want to live eternally here on earth as you are described above?