I felt I had to make this post while I am still able.

If nothing is done to treat a cataract - or at least, destroy the lens and replace it with an IOL - then a nuclear cataract will very often progress to the point of blindness. The lens will eventually become a hard, opaque mass, and even surgery to remove it may be difficult and lead to complications. Sometimes, the nucleus may subsequently liquefy, and if this material leaks from the capsule, it usually causes inflammation or uveitis, consequently there would be a huge rise of intraocular pressure and glaucoma would quickly ensue. The damage caused to the optic nerve would be irreversible, meaning blindness would be permanent.
My cataracts are already well down this road. Probably, it is already too late for surgery without complication. Of course I am terrified by the prospect of blindness, but I find one thing even more terrifying - the idea of capitulating, by undergoing surgery, to evil people who admitted to me, on many occasions, that they knew there was a better way, but did not want to treat this condition (cataract) non-surgically, and further admitted that they deliberately left themselves devoid of non-surgical options. Self-serving, arrogant and conceited, they are holding the threat of blindness over our heads, knowing full well that sooner or later, we will have to capitulate.
The purpose of this post is not to exhort people to follow my example. The last thing I want is for more people to lose their sight. Those of you who were facing cataract blindness and had the surgery are the victims of surgical blackmail, but God knows, you are completely blameless. And while I hope that your surgical outcomes were excellent, I also hope that by explaining this condition - how it comes about, and what might have been done to treat it non-surgically - by following the example of maverick ophthalmologists from the 1920s and 1960s who either practised or proposed non-surgical treatments - someone in a position to do something, somewhere, may finally say enough is enough, and take action to end this tragic situation.