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The Ethical Imperative of Life Extension

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Posted: Nov 26, 2007

OxfordUehiro Centre‘s Toby Ord in the practicalethics blog

All medicine is fundamentally about extending our lives and allowing us to be as healthy as possible while we live. Fighting aging pursues these objectives just as much as fighting a particular disease. If we could find some way of slowing aging so as to extend the human life span by 30% it would produce more benefit than curing any single disease. There is thus a moral imperative to significantly increase research into life extension.

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