Interesting - I had a brief dialog with her a while back, knew her only as amazingly successful & innovative, no idea of the flipside of her existence. Then again, I live next door to someone quite well known, and few would realize due to a variety of circumstances he's neither wealthy nor comfortable - others have profited greatly from his fame & work, but his existence is on a shoestring.

I'm also reminded when we went for prenatal checkups, the only vitamin the doctor acknowledged as useful was folic acid. Amazing - the body consisting of what, hundreds or thousands of chemicals, yet somehow nature is assured of giving us every single one except folic acid.

One of my family members spent a year trying to track down an exact cause for a particular affliction. There a number of diagnoses that might overlap as to symptoms - or might be some new different disease from what's known - but treatments might be vastly different (or non-existent). While patients/sufferers may not likely be endowed enough to self-medicate, more and more we all have more time & capacity for research than the typical doctor, and empowering people to help take care of themselves should rather be a right more basic than euthanasia (not that I'm against euthanasia - it's just an edge condition rather than a mid-point).

Perhaps at some point education will evolve to realize we usually work & live for ourselves and only tangentially for others, and modify skillsets & educational methods to support this balance - say 75% for self-sustainment, 25% for otherness. At that point, which is more important, math or yoga?