It really does seem to me that ALS will be curable soon.
Scientists are making really exciting progress on many fronts.
On that note:
http://lists.extropy.org/pipermail/extropy-chat/2014-August/
082585.html
They say Francis Bacon came to an untimely end due to an ill-planned
early experiment in cryopreservation (admittedly, of the nutritional
variety). I'm sure Hal was playing the cards he'd been dealt as best
he could; guess we'll find out at the showdown how much progress
we've made in this area over the last 4+ centuries...
-Dave
