I was reading a Wired article. Some woman learned she had a gene that icnreased her risk of cancer by 40%. Short story shorter, she cut out her uterus, ovaries, and both breasts.
Those 40% meant that is she made 10 copies of herself, 4 would have breast or ovarian cancer. Yet she decided to mutilate herself and become, quite literally, asexual.
This got me to thinking what I would decide and why. As someone better known than me once said "it's not dying we're afriad of, it's life ending" and if I am at a later part of my life I wouldn't be so scared of life ending since I would have seen enough. I know for a fact that if I was in my early years I would jsut take the chance and screw it, I'm not about to live as something that doesn't even classify as human just for the sake of being alive, and who knows maybe I will be one of the 6 people that didn't have any problems.
What would any of you do?
