Just want to warn you. If you could live as long as Want a few thousand years of life
you wanted would you allow limits?
before you die or never?
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by Joe B. Hard to get out of one’s own way difficult, frustrating, and futile if you are to close to notice you are your own enemy. Last Saturday I’m in a Filmore festival in the. I was told about it and decided to check it out. After three serving of lunch in St. Anthony’s. Its before Oakland’s Juneteenth on the 17th. The 38 Geary bus took me there in no time though it is less crowded. It’s a sun gorgeous day full of lovely women young, old, and mature of various ages and a men which I don’t notice since men don’t turn me on. After circling the area, listening to both Rap and Jazz enjoying exposed cleavage and backs of ladies. There are books, video’s, clothes, people selling their wares, and all kinds of olfactory seductive foods. Succumbing to wafting cooking odors I buy a peach cobbler for $4.50 taking a Geary bus home placing still warm food in my mini fridge. At home doodling, reading and old Toffler book I came across a paper on cryonics, a sub-science of Cryogenics involving the use of very low temperatures. It gets me thinking of The Flood Building that has a Cryonics address there. I go inside, sign my name, time, and take the elevator up. Frosted glass, polished wooden doors, and wall-to-floor white-gray marble made place quiet and creepy like walking in a mausoleum. I find the number but no words. Using the stairs is quicker. The guard explains how new clients moved in and some haven’t stenciled in their names on the doors. Recently I’ve joined a church, museum, and thinking of being a Common Wealth Club member as well. I figure between those and Life Extension, Elimination-Of-Death, Anti Aging Association, and Immortalist Organizations would encompass spiritual, cultural, social-intellectual and possibly after death revival. The last ones are organizations I’m almost too late for. Its said humanity has free will. Ultimately how long we chose to live should be up to us and not to Governments, Quasi religious oligarchies or false dynastic empire something like father and son Presidents with deeply held religious bent. A Bush bioethicist Leon Kass wants an end to life extension efforts, he too has his reasons too. From a column originally written Tues. Dec. 2, 2002. I read some of Mr. Simon’s column feeling slightly ill this Kass is a dangerous individual because being part of Selected President Bush’s Council on Bioethics with similar Remember President of the 1980’s 10 year ban on Bio technology and what has happened to him now? Well I don’t like this Mr. Kass holding up life saving technologies because he has problems with how far it will go. Hasn’t he heard of space habitats, platforms, asteroids and that we have the technology to train people and since age really isn’t a factor as 70 year Senator John Glen proved to the world. We’ve had people wanting to (for our own good) protect us from ourselves. Radiation from nuclear fallout, disease epidemics, sociopath, psychopathic, child molesters, rapists, murderer’s by law is vastly different from keeping is one thing. On the other hand folks saving their own or loved ones from needless suffering and deaths is different. Two oil men and a bio ethicist with similar view both slowing up new technologies have enough money for dead Dino flesh but want to ring every last drop while at the same time keeps converging life extension science under wraps. Maybe I’m wrong I hope I am. A revolution is brewing, bubbling, for all of and our choices in how long we live is in a the balance. We may need all life revival, anti aging doctors and other organizations to form new political parties because the main two or a few alternative here now isn’t seeing the new paradigm. It seems the only way to shake the country of its death culture is to prove there is an alternative to death to delay, slow, retard, reverse, and otherwise stop Grim in his/her tracks. The renegade want not only to live as long as they wish but have others do the same and it will be a global battle. It just may be the last most silent battle humanity ever has and its not about race, sex, age, religion, its about the ultimate battle for life itself. Everyone alive now, in the near or far future may not have a choice if our generation and others near us don’t fight for our own longer, healthier, lives. Life, Illness, sickness, disease, or Extended, prolonged life span is fleet as Mercury’s winged feet. It is easy to let our lives slip away but much harder to stay alive, see what the future holds and keep fighting. I know what I’ll be doing. What will be your choice? Bye… Email: askjoe@poormagazine.org |