[TeMPOraL]

> when people become too old to walk without assistance, you wouldn't say that they have a walking disease.

Why not? We have some peculiar cultural memes related to accepting the inevitable end of life, which we perhaps should revisit. I see no reason to not consider aging itself as a slow-burn disease, one we'll hopefully cure at some point too.

[xhevahir]

"Peculiar cultural memes" is an odd way of describing a piece of advice that one encounters so frequently in cultures the world over.

[TeMPOraL]

Well, peculiar now, given the understanding of biology we gained over the last 70-ish years. Individually, it still makes sense, but at social level, it stops us from working on fixing the problem.