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Elaine was in good health at ______
373
You might well feel that, if that was the offer, you’d rather not take it. Better to die at the end of your span of reasonably good health than to drag on in an extended state of old age, perhaps unable to do many of the things that make life fun, and increasingly in ______.
pain
Suppose instead that what we hold fixed, when we lengthen your life, is the number of years lived in ill health, rather than the number of years lived in good ______.
health
And regenerative medicine, if it came into being, would be likely to increase health span at the same time as increasing ______.
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This is, of course, a reasonable concern, if the offer on the table was the one described in the previous ______.
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The poor ______ concern First, you might worry that the most likely scenario in which you live to (say) 400, rather than 80, is one in which, like the status quo, your ______ starts to decline around age 70 or 75, and what you then get is an extra 320 years (past the age of 80) in increasingly poor ______.You might well feel that, if that was the offer, you’d rather not take it.Better to die at the end of your span of reasonably good ______ than to drag on in an extended state of old age, perhaps unable to do many of the things that make life fun, and increasingly in pain.This is, of course, a reasonable concern, if the offer on the table was the one described in the previous paragraph.But the concern does not apply to a different version of the offer.Suppose instead that what we hold fixed, when we lengthen your life, is the number of years lived in ill ______, rather than the number of years lived in good ______.Suppose, in other words, 45 Population and life extension that the choice is between an 80-year life with good ______ up to around 70 or 75 on the one hand, and a 400-year life with good ______ up to around 390 or 395 on the other.Elaine was in good ______ at 373.Clearly, the understandable aversion to having a state of poor ______ drag on and on gives no reasons for thinking that this kind of life extension is undesirable.And regenerative medicine, if it came into being, would be likely to increase ______ span at the same time as increasing lifespan.
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Suppose instead that what we hold fixed, when we lengthen your life, is the number of years lived in ill ______, rather than the number of years lived in good health.
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Elaine was in good ______ at 373.
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And regenerative medicine, if it came into being, would be likely to increase ______ span at the same time as increasing lifespan.
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The poor health concern First, you might worry that the most likely scenario in which you live to (say) 400, rather than 80, is one in which, like the status quo, your health starts to decline around age 70 or 75, and what you then get is an extra 320 years (past the age of 80) in increasingly poor ______.
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