How we fight death
How does a culture come to care about one specific life?
How can we create a cultural pattern that encourages interest in extending the life of a specific person?
Fields advance on language, images, arguments and stories, not on databases alone. The question is what makes the extension of a particular life -- yours, one person you can name -- culturally serious rather than abstract.
Without it, the goal stays a statistic and the money follows other statistics.