So in other words, “immortality” until the brain cancer is inoperable.
Seems deeply unlikely to work. The body only has so much capacity to heal from surgery, and that capacity diminishes with age, so eventually your surgeries would become too close together and you wouldn’t ever fully heal. At that point you might end up happier as a brain in a jar.
Yeah organ transplants are miraculous in the way medicine is miraculous not in the way religion is.
Medical miracles have limits and drawbacks. Organ transplants save lives and drastically improve quality of life, but it’s compared to a baseline of needing a new organ. Kidney recipients would much rather deal with anti rejection meds than dialysis. Heart recipients’ alternative is to die slowly.
Many rich people seem to think that shit like this will just replace their font of yang or something. They can’t accept that someday all that will remain of them is dust and consequences.
Death from unnatural causes aside, there are so many potentially fatal complications involved with an organ transplant, and even if you dodge all those bullets, there is the simple fact that we degenerate at a cellular level. None of us are on this Earth for long: rich, poor, president or janitor, death will not discriminate.
It’s really bad for the rich and powerful to forget that. Like partly for the people whose organs they’ll steal, but also just like for their psyches. Like, they’re clearly losing it.
Honestly even Rome (the republic) managed to be healthier about it. The element of the memento mori in the triumph, was just healthy. Sure you can have your great celebration honoring your conquest, but a slave will be following you reminding you that you too will die the entire time.
So in other words, “immortality” until the brain cancer is inoperable.
Seems deeply unlikely to work. The body only has so much capacity to heal from surgery, and that capacity diminishes with age, so eventually your surgeries would become too close together and you wouldn’t ever fully heal. At that point you might end up happier as a brain in a jar.
Yeah organ transplants are miraculous in the way medicine is miraculous not in the way religion is.
Medical miracles have limits and drawbacks. Organ transplants save lives and drastically improve quality of life, but it’s compared to a baseline of needing a new organ. Kidney recipients would much rather deal with anti rejection meds than dialysis. Heart recipients’ alternative is to die slowly.
Many rich people seem to think that shit like this will just replace their font of yang or something. They can’t accept that someday all that will remain of them is dust and consequences.
Death from unnatural causes aside, there are so many potentially fatal complications involved with an organ transplant, and even if you dodge all those bullets, there is the simple fact that we degenerate at a cellular level. None of us are on this Earth for long: rich, poor, president or janitor, death will not discriminate.
It’s really bad for the rich and powerful to forget that. Like partly for the people whose organs they’ll steal, but also just like for their psyches. Like, they’re clearly losing it.
Honestly even Rome (the republic) managed to be healthier about it. The element of the memento mori in the triumph, was just healthy. Sure you can have your great celebration honoring your conquest, but a slave will be following you reminding you that you too will die the entire time.
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They are already deeply unhappy broken individuals. They have everything and can’t get any more unhappy.
One word: “Zippers”.