Video (may make you cry) https://youtube.com/watch?v=OA8FJiz2ies
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/01/a-tech-pioneer...
What Happened to Lee - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22878136 - April 2020 (278 comments)
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 remembered by my family as I will be in my later, doddering years, rather than as the spritely, attentive, loving, and supportive father I've worked hard to be presently. Maintaining my health and intellectual curiosity is partially in pursuit of extending my stay outside of doddering old-age-hood as long as possible.
This story sounds similar, but all the more tragic because Lee Holloway was in early-mid life.
A shuddering reminder of the cold apathy of the universe, and to be thankful for, well, pretty much any good thing you've experienced ever.
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.
