What frustrates me is that it’s not 100% insane, just 95%. There are Silicon Valley CEOs and others that regularly get transfusions of blood from younger, healthier people as a means of improving their own health. The New Yorker wrote about this and some other crazy life extension stuff happening in the Silicon Valley in 2017.
So no tortured babies or adrenochrome, but we do quite literally have people taking blood from the young in an attempt to extend their own lives.
Yeah I first heard about young blood transfusions in a podcast episode about Peter Thiel. He’s the closest thing to a real world vampire.
The best part about it is that it actually is detrimental to their health. More transfusions means a higher risk of transfusion reaction if you really need it.
“Taking” blood does give it another extra sinister tinge over what’s actually happening.
Fair enough, but I honestly find it ghoulish regardless of the surrounding terminology.
There are plenty of worse ways for people in good health to make money, and I understand the desire to improve one’s personal health and prolong life (assuming you have one you enjoy), but there’s just something I find deeply unsettling and intensely objectionable about it all.
Especially when there’s all these “adrenochrome” and “vampire” crazy conspiracies giving them air cover so to speak.
Edit: I think what bothers me is that if it does work, it’s restricted to the elite, and if it doesn’t then we’re negatively impacting the donor’s health for no reason.