[buscoquadnary]

I think aultruism is part of it, if you've seen a relative succumb to advancing age especially dementia it can be quite moving.

But another less popular view I have is that many of these people have spent all their life focusing on the things of the world and the money and the grind and the etc, etc. Their focus is on the work the money the grind and so they simply want to continue getting a return on their investment without having it get interrupted by something as pesky as death.

After all no matter who you are Stalin or a poor Russian peasant death is the great equalizer and comes for us all eventually, at which point all the grind, all the work, all the money, doesn't make much different when you are lying in the hospital bed taking your last breaths. The only thing you have at that point is to reflect on your life and what you've done. It is a sobering thought.

[vagrantJin]

Im of the opinion that treating diseases caused by a weakening body is a net good.

But you are right ofcourse. All thats left for us is to decay beneath the soil or burn to ashes.