Well, we are not "trying to" pursue both - we actively are. Anyway, there certainly is much discussion to be had about class discrimination in medical care, but that seems out of scope for this thread - not least because of very simple things like some country's healthcare systems being radically different than others.

> Additionally, without the desire to preserve life and value of the advantages of aged minds, we will not make as much progress on the disease.

I'm not sure why you think that easing end-of-life suffering would lead us to stop preserving life?

We're also not talking about "aged minds," we're talking about damaged minds - and even if we were, we're not talking about de-aging or anything like that.