In article , Cursitor Doom
writes
On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 12:55:57 +0000, DJC wrote:

We find causes and cures for one disease after another only to find we
are still mortal. The big advances in health in the last two centuries
have come from basic improvements to public health: clean water and
sanitation being the most important. Everything else is tinkering with a
miracle cure for rare things which will add a few years to a few lives.

And in many cases what's the point? The pharmaceutical industry is pretty
big on dragging out life expectancy and if you take a daily cocktail of
their costly chemicals you might well live into your 90s, but your
quality of life in those extended years may be wretched and so far, Big
Pharma has not produced one single pill that can make miserable elderly
people sustainably happy.
Life expectancy has actually gone down in each of the last two years.
Suspected cause - falling quality of care for the elderly.
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bert

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In article , Cursitor Doom
writes
On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 12:55:57 +0000, DJC wrote:

We find causes and cures for one disease after another only to find we
are still mortal. The big advances in health in the last two centuries
have come from basic improvements to public health: clean water and
sanitation being the most important. Everything else is tinkering with a
miracle cure for rare things which will add a few years to a few lives.

And in many cases what's the point? The pharmaceutical industry is pretty
big on dragging out life expectancy and if you take a daily cocktail of
their costly chemicals you might well live into your 90s, but your
quality of life in those extended years may be wretched and so far, Big
Pharma has not produced one single pill that can make miserable elderly
people sustainably happy.

Life expectancy has actually gone down in each of the last two years.

Only very marginally.

Suspected cause - falling quality of care for the elderly.

More likely to be people not being able look after themselves
as well heating wise etc as we saw the worst recession since
the great depression.