A good start down the path - but you have to make the next conceptual leap after thinking about time as a countdown resource. That leap is thinking about whether you can use time to create more time, what sort of trade-offs you can pull in through support of medical research to ensure that you have a higher expectation value of living for a greater number of healthy years.

You can indeed put time and resources in to that goal in this day and age, and a related question is what you losing in the trade-off by not doing any of that. e.g.:

http://www.sens.org

http://www.neworgan.org

http://www.mfoundation.org

http://www.lifestarinstitute.org

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.scienceag...

http://www.bg-rf.org.uk

etc.