Passage Summary: Investing in new medical tech is a great way to lose money because it's expensive and usually fails. Even so, people keep throwing money at it.

Reasoning: Technologies that extend life require expensive research and are financially risky with low expected returns, yet people continue to invest in them.

Analysis: The paradox here is the conflict between the high financial risk and the continued investment. To resolve this, we need a motivation for investing that isn't purely about making a profit. Since the technology specifically targets 'extending life and decreasing pain,' the solution likely involves personal or altruistic benefits. Perhaps the investors are more interested in surviving their own illnesses than they are in their quarterly dividends.