Declaration of War On Death #usa #auspol #beijing

THE WAR ON DEATH - A Declaration Death has ruled humanity for as long as humanity has existed. We have buried our loves, our parents, our children, our friends and our enemies. We have accepted their disappearance because we believed there was no alternative. We have dignified death with ceremony, explained with philosophy, and consoled ourselves with religion. But acceptance is not the same thing as surrender. We declare war on death. We begin with a simple proposition: human death is a problem to be solved. Disease was once regarded as fate. Flight was impossible. The Moon was unreachable. The atom was indivisible. Again and again, humanity has discovered that the boundaries imposed upon us were not boundaries at all. Death deserves the same scrutiny. All of us should make the defeat of human death a deliberate objective of civilisation. First, we must extend healthy human life. Then we must learn to prevent and reverse the processes that cause ageing, degeneration and death. And we should not stop there. Human beings who have died were real people. Their existence mattered. Their loss matters still. We should investigate, seriously and without embarrassment, whether future science can recover, reconstruct or ultimately restore those whom death has taken from us. This is not a promise that victory is near. It is a refusal to declare victory impossible. Nor is this a war between nations, religions, races or generations. Death is the common enemy of every human being. A civilisation united against it would have less reason to destroy itself. The War on Death begins with research, argument, imagination and resolve. Its timetable may be long. Its methods will change. Its declaration can be amended whenever knowledge advances. But its objective is simple: No more human beings lost to death. And, one day, perhaps, no human being left behind. The War on Death begins now.