How can one talk about the "posthuman," or the latest software, and say
that research can't solve dementia or Alzheimer's?
Are our engineer's smarter than our biologists?
I think it's a matter of where you put your research money, what you value.
Presently it's going for weapon systems that kill more people for fewer
reasons.
As for living longer, it's interesting that our Paleolithic ancestors
had a longer life expectancy than we do.
-Joel
On 8/10/2014 5:32 AM, dave miller wrote:
Hi Annie
My father is suffering from both vascular dementia and alzheimers, in
pretty equal doses. A scan of his brain shows huge dark areas, holes
where decay has eaten the brain away over the years. There is some
medicine now for alzheimers but all they can do is slow down the
onset, not repair any of the damage.
Physically my dad is fine, just mentally he's collapsing. On top of
this he has undiagnosed mental health problems. Every case is different.
They keep telling us we're all living longer, and this justifies
increasing the pension age etc and other austerity measures. Well,
it's not much of a life like that, not sure if i want this for myself,
though I can see what's coming now!
My dad knows he's got problems with his brain, he's aware of the
deterioration. I'm not sure how he can accept it, maybe there's a way,
it would be great if he could.
I think you're right - there's no way out of this.
dave
On 10 August 2014 12:21, Annie Abrahams <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
... also very much touched ...
a nice way to try to understand, I felt it worked for me, but ...
do we understand what is happening ... We probably can't ...
I don't think research can really make this better
there will always be some kind of detoriation as long as we will
have bodies, as long as we will continue to die
we will have to accept it and give it a place, take time for it
no way out
Annie
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 11:33 PM, michael szpakowski
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
It's very powerful. It's a brave piece to make and it's
empathetic too. I found it almost impossible to watch through
to the end.
My mum had vascular dementia for the last couple of years of
her life & my mother in law died a couple of years ago with
fairly advanced alzheimers.
It's an utterly devastating thing. In a rational world we'd be
pouring resources into doing something to find a cure yet as I
understand it, research is relatively low down the list.
michael
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