Lord Sumption tells Stage 4 cancer sufferer her life is 'less valuable' than others. He also claims 'All lives are not of equal value, the older you are, the less valuable yours is because there's less of it left.'' Here’s a thread to test that theory...1/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9156849/Lord-Sumption-tells-Stage-4-cancer-sufferer-life-valuable-others.html

At 71 Katsusuke Yanagisawa, retired Japanese schoolteacher, became the oldest person to climb Mt. Everest. At 72, Margaret Ringenberg flew around the world. At 75, cancer survivor Barbara Hillary became one of the oldest people, and the first black woman, to reach the North Pole

At 77 John Glenn became the oldest person to go into space. At 78, Chevalier de Lamarck proposed a new theory of the evolutionary process, claiming that acquired characteristics can be transmitted to offspring. At 79, Asa Long became the oldest U.S. checkers champion 3/

At 80 Christine Brown of CA flew to China & climbed the Great Wall. At 81, Bill Painter became the oldest person to reach the 14,411-foot summit of Mt. Rainier. At 82 William Baldwin became the oldest tightrope walker, crossing the South Boulder Canyon in Colorado 4/

At 84, W. Somerset Maugham wrote "Points of View." At 85 Theodor Mommsen became the oldest person to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature. At 86, Katherine Pelton swam the 200-meter butterfly in 3 minutes, 1.14 seconds, beating the men’s world record for that age group 5/

At 88 Michelangelo created the architectural plans for the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli. At 89, Arthur Rubinstein performed one of his greatest recitals in Carnegie Hall. At 90, Marc Chagall became the first living artist to be exhibited at the Louvre museum 6/

At 96 Harry Bernstein published his first book, "The Invisible Wall," three years after he started writing to cope with loneliness after his wife of 70 years, Ruby, passed away. At 97, Martin Miller was still working fulltime as a lobbyist on behalf of benefits for seniors 7/

At 99, Teiichi Igarashi climbed Mt. Fuji. At 100, Frank Schearer seems to be the oldest active water skier in the world. Now here’s the accomplishments for some of those “more valuable” people courtesy of the Darwin Awards website... 8/

A 19 yo man & his gf were walking along the Havel River in Germany arguing. Losing the point the man shoved gf in the river, jumping in to push her under. But she could swim. He could not. He sank into the 2° water, was pulled out & rushed to hospital but died from brain damage9/

35 yo Zaim Kosnan spotted a 12-foot python on the road &
Decided to catch it to sell. He managed to grab the snake & transport it home by motorbike. En route the python wrapped its body around him. Zaim swerved off the road, crashed, eventually pronounced dead by strangulation10/

28 year old Cody Horn tied his golf cart behind a vehicle on State Highway 4 and let it pull him along the road. The golf cart swerved across the double yellow line and directly into the path of a Ford truck, causing a head-on collision that instantly killed the 28-year-old 11/

Now tell me again Lord Sumption of the value of life versus anyone else? End of thread 12/