1 Innocent life or Cure all disease?

[Rataxes]

Better yet, make it someone you care about. I do doubt that people would sacrifice their mother for this cause.

[john]

How about xwife? To rid of us the dreaded hang nail epidemic!

[Dreamer128]

Originally posted by Rataxes: Better yet, make it someone you care about. I do doubt that people would sacrifice their mother for this cause.

Sacrifice family? Will my mother-in-law do? Oh wait.. someone I care about

[Aelia Jusa]

Originally posted by Dreamer128: Well, how many people really die of disease in the first world?

Most of them I believe. Heart disease and cancers are the biggest killers in Australia AFAIK.

I think some clarification of 'cure' is necessary. Does this mean that medicines will be available to treat all diseases successfully, so people will still get the diseases but they will be treatable and non-fatal? Or that we will have vaccines for all diseases? Or that the diseases will be eradicated entirely? Certainly my answer would depend on which of these is meant.

Further, will the 'cures' be available to everyone? For example, the progression and severity of AIDS in the first world has been markedly improved in the last few years by drugs. These would be of enormous benefit to the millions of AIDS sufferers in Africa, however they are not available to the vast majority. How about cost - would they be expensive to buy even in developed countries? A situation where cures were available only to the privileged would not be palatable to me.

Finally, who would this child be? Is anyone here volunteering their child (or themselves)? [img]graemlins/idontagreeatall.gif[/img]

[Brainless One]

Id do it even if it were myself. I doubt that Im ever going to accomplish something in my life, or be more than a burden on the world, at least this way Id die with honor and make some people happy.
-Brainless One