08 September 2010

Lasting Words ~ Mother's Message To Her Kids...

Globe's Bryan Marquard writes of Karyn Slomski's Lasting Words...
"Nearly four years had passed since Karyn was diagnosed with cancer, and she had learned several days earlier that the final treatment wasn’t working. What she did not know was that she had just 10 days left to live. "We really didn’t even think we’d ever get this far. We’re lucky," Karyn said. [...] Karyn gathered her family in the living room of their Auburn house to be recorded in a video so that years from now, Brendan and Maggie will be able to see her smile, listen to her sing, and hear her words of love. The video, she told her giggling children, was just a memento of the moment. “They don’t know the next part,’’ Karyn, who was 38, told the Globe that day. The next part began early yesterday, when Karyn died at home."
That's heartbreaking. We simply must go Human 2.0 -- bolstering the sagging, invigorating the depressed, treating the ailing, and curing the seemingly incurable. This means massive research and development on translational medicine in the realms of oncology, gerontology, neurotechnology, and more. The overwhelming majority of human suffering and death continues to be due our lack of transformative knowledge about viable alternative pathways. Here's to Karyn, with love. You will be remembered...

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