So sad. This reminds me of the story of Eric Sun who had an incurable brain cancer and fulfilled one final act.<p>Video (may make you cry)
<a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=OA8FJiz2ies" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/watch?v=OA8FJiz2ies</a><p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/01/a-tech-pioneers-final-unexpected-act" rel="nofollow">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/01/a-tech-pioneer...</a>
Discussed at the time (of the article):<p><i>What Happened to Lee</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22878136" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22878136</a> - April 2020 (278 comments)
I cried for weeks and even months anytime I thought about this after I read it back in 2020. Such a sad story, so upsetting. To this day, it continues to inspire me with gratitude for my good health (in relative terms) and wonderful family.
Memento homo cogito mori
1/5000 doesn't seem rare by my measure.<p>If you count all neurodegenerative conditions noted & unnoted it happens frequently enough to take it to own heart.<p>There was also the case of murderer made by brain-cancer not own will.<p>Billions $$ wasted on wet transhumanist dreams of fully replaceable elite, zero on reverting human living conditions & health back to his natural optimal species proper state (Ancient Ethiopians bragged to Egyptian farmers about commonly reaching 120 years)<p>We pretend civilization & it's inventions doesn't kill. While it's lethality lately started increasing exponentially.<p>What's made to replace natural human conditions is by default suboptimal or negative, unleashing unpredictable adaptations, often written into DNA cursing next generations.<p>There certainly are evolutionary adaptations, built into our bodies (as insulin resistance for winter or inflammation) applicated seasonally or in temporary disruptions, which chronically prolonged become damaging and deadly disguised as another disease.<p>Rad was once trendy. Then gernazi chemotherapy. Now it's DNA alteration.<p>Nature will adapt well as animals in Chernobyl but humans taken out of natural conditions won't.