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  I am not sure if it was a blessing he went so fast in my dad's case.
  My mom was so worried about taking care of him and the costs. 
  I was lucky to say goodbye before he had lost his mental faculties and then just weeks later he was gone. 
  Anything that would give some hope or prevent would be a godsend.
context: As someone who has worked for years in neruology: Here's to hoping that this is available to the general population as soon as possible. >
  
  I believe mRNA vaccines and Crispr are the future. I believe in the not so distant future, even if it's 20,30, 50 years away, we will be able to edit genes in the womb. And on living people. Everything from cancer, epilepsy, schizophrenia, Alzheimer's Parkinson's, will be a minor inconvenience that people will know if they're predisposed can get it fixed. I love science and medicine. Always wanted to be a doctor, and specialize in neurology. Gonna go the PA route and either work on cardiology or neurology. >
  
  Which would be neat if it were available to everyone for minimal cost. On other hand if its extremely expensive and available for wealthy itll be nothing more than harbinger of new form of genetically modified feudalist dystopia. >
  
  call me pessimistic but that's exactly what I imagine would happen. there's no benefit I can see to making stuff like gene therapy affordable >
  
  Society does change on a generational scale. In 50 years the world may well be a very different place. >
  
  Do you find capitalism to be different now than it was in 1973? >
  
  Yes, at least in America things have gotten much worse for the working class clearly and the rich have gained more power.  But that does not mean the trend will continue 50 years from now.  For all we know unions will rise again as a powerful force. Also globally things are actually much improved for the most impoverished since 1973. One thing I know for sure: giving up isn't a good strategy. >
  
  
  For all we know unions will rise again as a powerful force.
  
  I'm seeing a bunch of unions for game developers popping up here and there, hoping they do some good >
  
  The funny thing is people think that unions are somehow anticapitalist. I see them just as companies that advocate for their members. Companies within companies. It's actually how life evolved with cells living inside of other cells, which eventually gave rise to the cellular components all working together. No reason to think that we can't evolve cooperative systems on a global scale. Give it time. >
  
  The current accepted theory is that some cells weren't able to breakdown some other cell (notably bacteria), and the now ingested bacteria also wasn't a detriment to the larger cell. A Prokaryotic cell did not just begin to evolve organelles from our current understanding.
  Eventually the inner cell(s) began to specialize, leading to Eukaryotic cells.
  It's called endosymbiosis.
  To your example, it'd be more akin to a union forming from a company that was bought out by another. >
  
  well, that's both wonderful and very sad.  Just past 2 yrs since I lost a lifelong friend who needed a couple more decades of being amazing.  Diagnosis to death in less than 4 months.
  Here's to all the other amazing people this will save. >
  
  Lost my dad in Sept.  More like 3 months for him.   Surgery had no effect. >
  
  Same.  and it was more like 3 now that I actually count.  Seemed endless.  The horrible thing is the wee bit of hope the surgery gives, which you don't want to crush even when you know it's not going to change anything.  Strong family history = we knew what was happening, and how unstoppable it was. >
  
  We were just hoping for a little more time so we could all do one last trip as a family.  
  But he never left the hospital once admitted. >
  
  I’m so sorry, it’s a fucking awful thing. Lost my dad to glioblastoma in July, and in many ways, he was one of the lucky ones, the surgery to remove the initial tumor was pretty successful, and he lived for just over a year from the initial diagnosis.
  But even so, it was just brutal seeing his mental and physical faculties being stripped away one by one, and the seemingly relentless nature of the cancer. Hopeful that this treatment will be able to change that in future.