A new treatment that blocks an aging-related protein restored lost cartilage in old mice and helped prevent arthritis after knee injuries. Human cartilage samples showed similar signs of regeneration, raising hopes for a future drug that could repair joints instead of replacing them.
I think a part of getting older is just watching medical science get better as the world gets shittier and realising the two cancel each other out so a natural death is still the preferred option. This is probably how people felt off the back of a world war, the depression, and then in the middle of another world war, someone’s like,
“Check out penicillin! I accidentally discovered it like a decade ago.”
“Nah, I’m good, thanks.”
Yeah my dad was discussing MAID (medically assisted death) recently, he is in his late 70s.
He lost his heel in a motorcycle accident in the 1970s and they butchered up his right inner thing taking a chunk out and putting it on his foot. So now both his legs are in constant pain and he spends most of his day high as a kite to deal with the pain. He can barely walk anymore. He got through cancer a few years back which made matters worse and he lost his sense of taste so he gets to be in pain all day and not taste anything enjoyable.
Nothing medical is going to improve his life drastically so if MAID is what he wants then I will support him.
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