Life without any chance of death is hardly worth living
Life without any chance of death is hardly worth living Health breakthroughs seem like great news, but we all need mortality as motivation Ambitions may vary, but we all hope for the same death: lying in bed as old and wise as we’d ever wished to be, propped up on pillows, and surrounded by loving family. But I reckon the perfect death will lose its lustre if it’s a sure thing. Scientific advances mean that, by the year 2050, cancer will hardly ever kill those younger than 80. According to David Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Pharmaceutical and Public Health at University College London, we will become steadily more effective at treating the disease over the next 35 years, until it becomes a rarity to die of the Big C before reaching old age. At first blush this is great news, or at least it is for those of us born after 1970 who, according to Prof Taylor’s maths, now sit smugly behind the lines of the war on cancer. Break out the fags, let’s all jet off to some gha...