Campaign for Longer Better Lives
Transhumanists argue that twenty extra years of healthy life are just as valuable in someone's second century as in their first. Through our Longer, Better Lives Program we seek to make the case for longer healthier lives, addressing objections to life extension, from the alleged problem of overpopulation to the threat of ennui. We will be coordinating and seeking consultation with senior citizens groups and organizations of the disabled to help them challenge ageist and ableist attitudes that discourage the full utilization of health technology.
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The Case for Healthy Longer Life
Organizations Working for Healthy Longer Life
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Alliance for Health and the Future A "think-and-do tank" established to identify, inform and raise awareness of behaviours and systems that can lead to greater well-being and productivity throughout life.
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Alliance for Aging Research A non-profit
organization dedicated to supporting and accelerating the pace of medical
discoveries to vastly improve the universal experience of aging and health.
They offer a wide range of useful resources and links on their web site.
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American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine The American Academy of
Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) is a not-for-profit medical society dedicated to
the advancement of technology to detect, prevent, and treat aging related
disease and to promote research into methods to retard and optimize the
human aging process. A4M is also dedicated to educating physicians,
scientists, and members of the public on anti-aging issues.
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American Aging Association (AGE) AGE is a non-profit
group advocating biomedical studies to slow the aging process, public
education about aging and healthy life extension research, and better
knowledge of gerontology among physicians.
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American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR)
helps scientists begin and further careers in aging research and geriatric medicine.
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Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation Medical breakthroughs
don't come cheap. Scientific achievement begins with individual brilliance,
but cannot be completed without the financial means to put ideas into action
and translate theories into treatments. The CRPF strongly advocates research
into stem cell therapies and regenerative medicine.
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Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research (CAMR) The Coalition for the
Advancement of Medical Research (CAMR) is comprised of nationally-recognized
patient organizations, universities, scientific societies, foundations, and
individuals with life-threatening illnesses and disorders, advocating for
the advancement of breakthrough research and technologies in regenerative
medicine - including stem cell research and somatic cell nuclear transfer -
in order to cure disease and alleviate suffering.
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International Longevity Center A non-profit, nonpartisan research, policy and education organization whose mission is to help societies address the issues of population aging and longevity in positive and constructive ways and to highlight older people's productivity and contributions to their families and to society as a whole. The ILC-USA is an independent affiliate of Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
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Life Foundation The mission of the
Maximum Life Foundation is to accelerate the pace of research on the human
aging process. Senescence, the destructive process that is responsible for
human aging, is a primary cause behind heart disease, cancer, stroke, type
II diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease. The Foundation has created a network
of scientists, physicians, and biotechnology industry professionals to use
their talents and resources to develop a strategic plan to understand and
treat the underlying causes of these disease processes.
- Longevity Meme The Longevity Meme is a California-based non-profit organisation, founded in mid-2001. Our goal is to encourage achievable technologies, lifestyles and other means that will help people live comfortably, healthily and capably for as long as they desire, well beyond the current limits of mortality. We aim to ensure that the means and potentials of healthy life extension become commonly accepted throughout the world.
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StemCellAction.org Let's put a human face
on the need for stem cell research. We are a grassroots, volunteer group of
patients and their families and friends who believe that stem cell research
has the potential to save the lives of those afflicted by many so-called
"hopeless" medical conditions, including Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, juvenile
diabetes, M.S., A.L.S. and spinal cord injury.
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StemCellHelp StemCellHelp is
committed to working with individuals and institutions so that Congress may
eventually approve stem cell research and funding.
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Immortality Institute The Immortality
Institute is a grassroots organization founded to help humanity conquer the
blight of involuntary death. We depend on the generous help of members and
volunteers to gather information, fund projects, promote scientific research
and discuss questions concerning the possibility of human physical
immortality.
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The Methuselah Foundation The Methuselah
Foundation is a group of dedicated volunteers from the science and business
community who work towards promoting and encouraging effective scientific
research towards healthy life extension. The Methuselah Foundation runs the
well regarded
Methuselah Mouse Prize for anti-aging research.
