“Christopher Reeve, Man of Steel, RIP: Progenitor of a transhumanist future?” Truman West - 11/05/04
“I’m not living the life I thought I would lead… but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love, there is joy, there is laughter.”—Christopher Reeve, 2001.
It’s hard to convey how dreadful I felt upon reading my Yahoo news, 10/12/04, that this wonderful man had suffered cardiac failure and death following rampant infection from a routine skin abrasion.
“NO, NO, NO, NO, especially not him!”
Not the man so courageously leading the charge for therapeutic stem-cell cloning, a revolutionary technology that promises imminently to restore and rejuvenate damaged cells in anyone’s diseased/wounded body. Therapeutic “embryonic” cloning also promises to extend the meaningful, vigorous human lifespan by decades if not centuries.