Dr. David Sinclair
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Not to mention the fact that you need to put Vaseline on your eyes, earplugs in your ears if you want to know what it's like being old.
Or even worse, shut your eyes and you can never open them again.
That's what it's like for those patients that we hope to cure blindness in.
There's no day if you're healthy where you want to die.
Even if you're 100, 120, if you have friends, family, loved ones, you're healthy, would you say, okay, tomorrow I'm ready to die?
No.
No.
Exactly.
Right?
So that's my point is when people say, oh, when I'm 80, kill me.
That is bullshit.
Excuse my language.
Am I allowed to swear on this?
Of course you can.
It's only when you're sick or you have depression that you want to leave this world.
Otherwise, life is a joy for most people in the world.
Not everybody, and we have to fix that as well.
But for most of us, being alive is the greatest gift of any collection of atoms.
Consciousness is even greater.
And why would you want that to end?