Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence

Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence is SENS. This area is devoted to learning, teaching, and research related to SENS.

Many educational institutions attempt to cure diseases. There are many teaching hospitals that exist. There are many universities that conduct research into how we can reduce the global disease burden.

Aging is a lot like smoking cigarettes, it is really bad for you.

Discussion questions

Should funding for SENS research be increased? By how much?
How can you help to raise awareness for SENS research?
How you read the book Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey? What did you think about it? What did you learn from it?
How might SENS eventually help reduce the prevalence of atherosclerosis?

Lessons research and discussion

Why SENS is ethical and should be adopted as a point of view
Controversies surrounding SENS
Ethics involving SENS
How you can help support SENS research

Readings

Wikipedia

Papers

It is time to classify biological aging as a disease

See also

Overcoming pro-aging mindsets
Biomedical gerontology
Stem cells
Cryonics
Rejuvenation
Should suicide be legal? - If aging is defeated should suicide be legal? Should people be able to engage in suicide after 100 years of life? 400 years? Never? If extreme life extension technologies are developed successfully, would stopping such therapies be a form of suicide?
Medical ethics

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