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Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

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1257 points jbredeche | 2 comments | 15 May 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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efilife ◴[15 May 25 21:41 UTC] No.43999602[source]▶
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koala_man ◴[15 May 25 23:53 UTC] No.44000502[source]▶
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efilife[dead post] ◴[16 May 25 00:14 UTC] No.44000616[source]▶
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squigz ◴[16 May 25 02:42 UTC] No.44001379[source]▶
> that the child will die at some point

So what? So a father shouldn't celebrate medical advances that mean their kid doesn't have to die after a week? And if it does, they should just be like "Ah, that's life!"

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efilife ◴[16 May 25 03:13 UTC] No.44001497[source]▶
I never said any of this
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squigz ◴[16 May 25 03:15 UTC] No.44001508[source]▶
I didn't say you did. I was trying to understand your point, and so was inferring what you could possibly have meant with your original comment.
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1. efilife ◴[16 May 25 03:49 UTC] No.44001678[source]▶
Oh, sorry. I definitely think a father can (should?) celebrate medical advancements like this, and definitely shouldn't undermine death like "Ah, that's life". My point is that people often worry about their children's death when they themselves are still alive. Death seems okay if it's when they don't get to see it
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2. Tade0 ◴[16 May 25 06:08 UTC] No.44002274[source]▶
Death of someone whose potential was largely realized is a very different thing than the death of someone who never got a chance at the same.

I would be deeply unhappy to learn that my children won't live to old age.

Also witnessing the death of a loved one is obviously traumatic. People grieve their parents dying of old age.