Feel Strongly About Aging? Read the Views of MPrize Donors
If you have ever thought about the age-related degeneration that awaits us in the years ahead, and wondered how to change this future, then let me assure you that you are far from the only one. I strongly suggest you take a few minutes to read through the comments, statements and views of donors to the MPrize for anti-aging research.
It is each man's responsibility to take destiny into his own hands. Reality follows dreams and I dream of the day in which this tragedy called aging is cured. In my lifetime, or for future generations, I believe that it is inevitable....
After considering the brevity of a normal lifespan and the vast number of potential experiences that each of us will miss because of it, I couldn't find any logical reason to not donate. I'm putting my money on a project that may provide us a real chance of never having to miss any piece of life that we don't choose to.
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I'm donating because our entire society is based around a respect for human life, and allowing people to live lives governed by choice as opposed to the specter of old age and death would possibly be the greatest liberty we could give to the individual.
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In making this donation, I am declaring my desire for a better and brighter future in which the pain and suffering of aging can be cured. I believe supporting the M-Prize is the best way of achieving my goal. I urge anyone reading this to do the same, it doesn't matter how much you can afford to give, what matters is adding your voice, making your stand along with the hundreds of others who want the same thing. Thank you.
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I see it as my responsibility to take some sort of action to help perpetuate the idea that healthy life extension is feasible. Donating to the Methuselah Mouse Prize is a personal act for me, one that takes me from the role of a "hopeful spectator" to a person who has actively contributed to the positive vision of the future I hold.
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I have seen many older people in my family deteriorate from diseases of aging and no one could do anything about it... I hope that we can make a difference with the mprize and give people more life.
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The process of aging and dying has robbed me of some of my dearest friends and has destroyed their infinitely precious skills, memories, knowledge, and human values. The aging process is now busily destroying my own mind and body. I am supporting the Methuselah Foundation because its founders, unlike most scientists, really are trying to do something about the aging process, and I think their approach is valid.
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One day a cure for aging will likely be found. At that point, the questions will be asked; "Could we not have made this happen sooner?" and "Why did hundreds of millions of people have to die prematurely and unnecessarily?" Personally, I do not want to be among those who did nothing. I want to be among those who shared the vision and who cared enough to contribute to its realization.
Many, many people in the world want to see a future in which aging is a chronic, treatable medical condition - and healthy lives are far longer as a result. By spreading the word, we can bring more to realize that easy and straightfoward ways exist to help make this future a reality. Such as, for example, donating to the MPrize fund to encouraging research, or helping to fund relevant research directly via the Methuselah Foundation.
We can change the world if we but set one foot in front of the other, again and again!