Alzheimer's is the most common disease that can be happened to everybody when we are aging, approximately over 65 years old. The main symptom of Alzheimer's is a memory loss that will affects to their abilities in daily life. According to "Blood test can predict Alzheimer's, say researchers", the researcher at Georgetown University found the way to predict this disease 3 years early before its emerge a symptom of illness. Their method start from collecting the patients' blood and analyzing the result, so that they can notice from the levels of 10 fats in the blood. Right now, Alzheimer's disease still can't be cured. Dr Simon Ridley, from the charity Alzheimer's Research UK also says to the press that this experiment is a real step forward, we can give treatment for the patients in the early stages of the disease and still can develop effective medicine at the same time.
I am appreciated to the scientists because their research is very helpful for all mankind, like my grand mother and my mother. From my observation, most of retired people always feel moody ,angry or even depressive. May be this is caused by Alzheimer's. They begin with forget something too easily and when they try to recover it, they just blank out. After the same situation occur more frequently, they will upset, disappoint and lack of self-confidence. This problem affect a lot for their life and of course, for me too because it's my job to look up for their things, like a game named photo hunt.
After this blood test is launched to the whole world, it can be cured and prevented Alzheimer's disease permanently. Moreover, In case, the scientists develop the blood test until it can predict every illness? Doctor will modify our genes and we are immortal then no one died? Some people must be moved to the moon right!!
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I have heard that one day in the future, people will be immortal. As they have higher technology with modern medical, they might used that cure and protect people from dead. But in facts, these might be illegal as the cloning has been. To stay alive forever, people have to chang their part of body to new one, this is the reason why cloning is illegal. As the scientists say, if you cloning yourself, every part of body might be same as your. People who have clone in their own, they can change their body part with the clone. This might cause the tecnics which let people be undead illegal too!
ReplyDeleteAnd should cloning yourself for spare parts be legal or illegal?
DeleteIf legal, when and why?
If illegal, always? And why?
I like the questions that Get raises here. They might also be useful to think about in relation to some of the issues we are reading about in Law's "Carving the Roast Beast". What do you think? Are there connections?
Cloning is illegal for Human Rights community. As I have studied, they said that every clones have their own feeling and response. Each clone has the same look, exactly every parts in its body, as the cloner (original). Moreover, as it also has feeling, at first might the same as cloner,
Deleteit understands what happen to it. So, when it knows that it is cloned from someone, it might be more aggressive and try to be real, like acts in different ways of the cloner does, or do something which confuse surrounding people that which one is cloned or cloner. But the most frightened is that the clone try to put the cloner down! Because it also want to be real! Not just as an experiment from science!
Human Rights community that cloning must be illegal because it is equal trying to kill someone, as clone has it own feeling and thinking. Also, to have one successful cloned, this might have killed more than hundred thousands embryo! Nevertheless, not all embry can be a baby, and not all baby can stay alive! Scientist has to kill more than ten thousands for one success! This is bad. So that why used the clone's part to fix your body is illegal too!
By the way, I did not read that article yet, just waking up after noon haha. After I have read, I will answer your question.
My grandmother had got Alzheimer. Not surprisingly, she has been changed into another person with totally different personality - angry, depression, a lot of anxieties, and of course she lost her long-term memory which means that she can't remember her family. However, after our family take care of her for a while, we has realize that even though this symptom can't be cured yet, the best way to deal with is to normalize their lifestyle - do not treat them as patient (like bedridden patient), but treat them as person who can do something meaningfully, for example, my grandma always joins our family activities such as sweep the dust or peel fruits and so on.
ReplyDeleteMy another comment is about how we deal with aging society? Due to development of medical knowledge, human's life expectancy seem longer than our past - people die at very long age; 80 or 90. How we as society deal with this situation. This is a debatable topic because to take care of older citizens means that the state has to put a lot of efforts and material resources - nursing agents, elderly house, and of course money always comes from our pockets, as tax payers. But it seems to be a greatly burden because these people they are not productive citizen anymore, or another choice is let them die naturally like the Eskimos dose?
I thought that Get raised some challenging questions in his post (Rach Raktb, March 13, 2014 at 3:02 AM), but Pa-naeng's questions here are probably even more challenging and controversial, because they are not about vague future possibilities but about issues that for many of us are already very real.
DeleteThankfully, most of the very old members in my family did not suffer Alzheimers or similar illnesses before their deaths, but one aunt did, and it was extremely painful for everyone around her.
And then there are people who want to die when or before they reach such a condition. Some countries already allow doctors to kill such people when requested, but most don't.
In Australia, one state did change its laws to allow doctors to kill patients who wanted to die, but the federal government blocked the state law, and the High Court (our constitutional court) allowed the federal government law to stand. However, polls show that a majority of Australians do favour such laws.
Should the law allow doctors to kill people who want to die? If they should be able to help patients to die, under what conditions?
And again, I think Law's essay might have something relevant to say here: if you think that there is a good reason why Law is wrong, why it is OK to kill animals, does that same reason also make it OK to kill at least some human beings?
Pa-naeng also raises a couple of other ideas that you might like to respond to.
DeleteHow about that these aging people have contributed many achievements in order to make the next generation to have a better living? They built infrastructure such as roads, BTS or also help shape the economy in the financial sector, or even work in the NGOs or healthcare service when they are young. Also, there are aging people who had been paying taxes in order to help the society as well. Even if the cost to take care old people is increasing, but is it right to say that we should not support the people who help us and let them die because they can't support us anymore?
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