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Re: What Happened to Lee (2020)

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Post by urbandw311er » Sun, Oct 16, 2022, 1:07 PM UTC

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #7

urbandw311er wrote: post #6

Bloody hell this is like my worst nightmare. The inability of the self to diagnose the self is particularly cruel.

My grandmother recently passed away. She'd had dementia for quite a few years, and in a cruel "death by a thousand cuts" it's a disease that robs you of... you. But it also robs your family of you, it replaces you with a physically present but empty shell in the shape of a human, who is not particularly pleasant to be around because, to quote The Zombies, "she's not there". One of my (irrational) fears is to be remem…

Yep. Thanks for sharing, I appreciated reading that. When I do go I hope it’s quick.

Re: What Happened to Lee (2020)

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Post by foobarian » Sun, Oct 16, 2022, 2:10 PM UTC

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #7

urbandw311er wrote: post #6

Bloody hell this is like my worst nightmare. The inability of the self to diagnose the self is particularly cruel.

My grandmother recently passed away. She'd had dementia for quite a few years, and in a cruel "death by a thousand cuts" it's a disease that robs you of... you. But it also robs your family of you, it replaces you with a physically present but empty shell in the shape of a human, who is not particularly pleasant to be around because, to quote The Zombies, "she's not there". One of my (irrational) fears is to be remem…

Dark as it is, I keep wondering how to set up a "dead-man switch," as it were, to make sure I don't make it to a state like that.

Re: What Happened to Lee (2020)

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Post by Ebree » Mon, Oct 24, 2022, 1:38 PM UTC

Memento homo cogito mori 1/5000 doesn't seem rare by my measure.

If you count all neurodegenerative conditions noted & unnoted it happens frequently enough to take it to own heart.

There was also the case of murderer made by brain-cancer not own will.

Billions $$ wasted on wet transhumanist dreams of fully replaceable elite, zero on reverting human living conditions & health back to his natural optimal species proper state (Ancient Ethiopians bragged to Egyptian farmers about commonly reaching 120 years)

We pretend civilization & it's inventions doesn't kill. While it's lethality lately started increasing exponentially.

What's made to replace natural human conditions is by default suboptimal or negative, unleashing unpredictable adaptations, often written into DNA cursing next generations.

There certainly are evolutionary adaptations, built into our bodies (as insulin resistance for winter or inflammation) applicated seasonally or in temporary disruptions, which chronically prolonged become damaging and deadly disguised as another disease.

Rad was once trendy. Then gernazi chemotherapy. Now it's DNA alteration.

Nature will adapt well as animals in Chernobyl but humans taken out of natural conditions won't.