And the leading cause of deaths in South Africa is...
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“The list released by the World Health Organisation cannot be accurate. Dying is the real leading cause of Deaths in our country. Not all these things they have mentioned with fancy names. They must do their research allover again. ” said Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi.
Something got lost in translation here, because I have no idea what he's trying to say.
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@anonymous234 seems like a parody article to me.
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@Yamikuronue said in And the leading cause of deaths in South Africa is...:
seems like a parody article to me.
With South African politicians, you never know.
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Yeah, that's definitely the first sentence of the article.
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@Yamikuronue said in And the leading cause of deaths in South Africa is...:
@anonymous234 seems like a parody article to me.
Bother - it is.
http://nationalnewsbulletin.com/about-us/
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@PJH Funny, I believed it completely.
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@anonymous234 Poe or Noe thread is
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@anonymous234 Assuming it's not a parody, my hunch is that he meant that people die because they are old, which is the age-old (ha!) view of a "good" death, and perhaps that trying to fit "fancy" medical names onto "normal" deaths is trying to make it seem as if we could "cure" old age and live forever.
I'm putting a lot of aliens on his shoulder there (and lots of air quotes... because calling "heart disease" a "fancy" medical name is ludicrious...), but this is the only way this makes a tiny little bit of sense (and it's a discourse that I've heard from other people, mostly when discussing about whether it's really worth treating e.g. a cancer in a 90-years old person and such -- essentially, they argue that at one point it is morally better to "let nature take its course" and revert to palliative care only).
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@remi said in And the leading cause of deaths in South Africa is...:
make it seem as if we could "cure" old age and live forever
There are people working on that
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@Jaloopa said in And the leading cause of deaths in South Africa is...:
@remi said in And the leading cause of deaths in South Africa is...:
make it seem as if we could "cure" old age and live forever
There are people working on that
Also the FT are working on me paying them to read articles.
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@loopback0 really? I don't pay and it came straight up for me
And now the link goes to a paywall page, weird.
Aubrey De Grey is the guy. He reckons the first person to live to 1000 has already been born, as by the time today's young children are 70, life expectancy will have increased to, say, 120 and by the time they reach 120 it will be even higher etc. The thesis is that eventually life expectancy will increase by more than a year each year, effectively giving people young enough unlimited potential lifespans assuming medical research keeps up
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@Jaloopa said in And the leading cause of deaths in South Africa is...:
He reckons the first person to live to 1000 has already been born,
That is probably about as much bullshit, wishful thinking and dismissal of reality than the people who think the singularity is going to happen (in <50 years). But it's good to have dreamers and as long as his research help people, well, he can dream all he wants!
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@remi It's probably a media soundbite to generate interest as much as anything. He makes predictions based on very optimistic projected funding, then has to keep revising it when the foundation doesn't get that much. It also assumes no brick walls in the research and that development can keep going at more or less the same pace.
I don't know if that recent news piece about the natural maximum lifespan being 120 years contradicts his research. I suspect not as it's based on no major interventions, and De Grey's research is about incrementally improving the types on intervention we can achieve.
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In other news, teenage pregnancies drop off sharply after age 20.
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Unless you can also shift the health up as well - who wants to be an OAP for 930 years?
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@Jaloopa said in And the leading cause of deaths in South Africa is...:
Aubrey De Grey is the guy. He reckons the first person to live to 1000 has already been born,
Will they invent a cure for bullet and knife wounds and being ran over by cars?
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@Jaloopa said in And the leading cause of deaths in South Africa is...:
@loopback0 really? I don't pay and it came straight up for me
And now the link goes to a paywall page, weird.I'd guess you googled it, they sniffed the referrer and let you look at it to avoid falling afoul of google's rules, but block it from anywhere not a search engine.
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@wharrgarbl said in And the leading cause of deaths in South Africa is...:
@Jaloopa said in And the leading cause of deaths in South Africa is...:
Aubrey De Grey is the guy. He reckons the first person to live to 1000 has already been born,
Will they invent a cure for bullet and knife wounds and being ran over by cars?
It is coming:
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@asdf said in And the leading cause of deaths in South Africa is...:
With South African politicians, you never know.
"We will do an investigation and talk to the department of science and technology on what is the cause of the lightning," said Dube.
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@bb36e said in And the leading cause of deaths in South Africa is...:
I watch the daily show every day and I'm just writing to ask why there's a demon standing just offscreen repeating his words into a second microphone.
That's some weird audio.
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@Jaloopa said in And the leading cause of deaths in South Africa is...:
I don't know if that recent news piece about the natural maximum lifespan being 120 years contradicts his research. I suspect not as it's based on no major interventions, and De Grey's research is about incrementally improving the types on intervention we can achieve.
Exactly. The lifespan limitation idea is based on a certain barrier in cellular reproduction (telomeres,) and if we can "fix" that, that limitation is gone. (And then we move on to the next one.). But then we're not dealing with a natural lifespan anymore, by definition.
