A longer life without dignity is a living hell, not a blessing

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A longer life without dignity is a living hell, not a blessing

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/publicservices/comment/0,,2190827,00.html
Scanned by: Antonio Manfredi over 4 years ago

This is a year of miracles. We are at a dawn of biomedical genetics. Diseases of old age will be eradicated and babies born today may thrive long into the 22nd century. That's according to Newsweek magazine. New Scientist, though, is gloomier. UK citizens aged over 100 will increase a hundredfold, to one million, by 2074.

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