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Violence is today, fortunately, a relatively rare cause of death. While it receives a lot of media attention, more people die from diarrheal disease than from all forms of violence put together. Heart disease taking exactly one third of the total deathtoll.
A report issued by the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime in July 2019 documented that nearly 464,000 people around the world were killed in homicides in 2017, a number significantly in excess of the 89,000 killed in armed conflicts and terrorism combined during the same period. Globally, 0.7% deaths in 2019 were the … Read more
Waging war has been the main occupation of man since the first recorded civilizations. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “war” is defined as A state of armed conflict between different countries or different groups within a country. A state of competition or hostility between different people or groups. A sustained campaign against an undesirable … Read more
According to the 1948 Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life … Read more
Cellular senescence is the phenomenon where cells lose the ability to divide. In response to DNA damage (including shortened telomeres) cells either senesce or self-destruct (apoptosis) if the damage cannot be repaired. Organismal senescence is the aging of whole organisms. The term aging has become so commonly equated with senescence that the terms will be … Read more
Aubrey de Grey, a leading researcher in the field of aging, defines aging as follows: “a collection of cumulative changes to the molecular and cellular structure of an adult organism, which result in essential metabolic processes, but which also, once they progress far enough, increasingly disrupt metabolism, resulting in pathology and death.” The second law … Read more
Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) The leading modern exponent of scientific rejuvenation is the modern biomedical gerontologist Dr. Aubrey de Grey. He calls his project to reverse the damage we call aging SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence). He has proposed seven strategies for the “seven deadly sins”: Cell loss can be repaired (reversed) … Read more