Wouldn't it be nice! But if we all lived forever, but what would our kids and grandkids do?
Evolution would get 'stuck'!
Who would want ME, Grandma, to live forever? Good heavens, no.
All my old phart neighbours to live forever,,,,,, Nahhh, I think humans just might want to keep on reproducing.
I would love to have the tendency for humans to be non-violent, but with more of them on this earth, vying for food and space, and fighting over religious differences, I dont think that is possible either.
I agree that we are making great medical advances, pacemakers, heart meds, anti cancer meds, and many more cures, we can prolong life to a certain extent, but beyond 90 years?
Hey where is AARP? Why arent they lobbying for this!
I do LOVE to think about things like this, but my husband brings me right back to Earth. But it is really FUN! I really enjoy reading and learning about things like this, and thank you for giving the links to your interesting sites and books.
Jane
An end to aging would not mean that people live forever. Accident, disease, and the like would still kill people, and would tend to impose an upper limit on the number of years a person could reasonably be expected to live.
One of the first objections many people come up with against anti-aging research is the idea that the earth's population would quickly fill to overflowing if nobody dies of old age. However, the fact is that industrialized countries are marked by a decline in birthrate; as a country becomes more wealthy and its citizens become more empowered, and as medical care becomes more sophisticated, birthrate goes down. The United States currently has
negative population growth through reproduction; the only reason the country's population is growing is immigration.
Who would want you to live longer? Well, presumably, you would, as would those people who love you, right? Old age and death is something we've grown to accept because we have until now had no hope of any other choice, but if you look at its cost, in terms of money, in terms of knowledge lost, in terms of suffering and grief and tears spilled on behalf of those who have seen the people they love become feeble and wither and die, aging and death are a travesty.
I wrote a journal entry which I think you might like to read, that seeks to offer some perspective on why accepting enfeeblement and death as a fact of life is not beneficial. It actually goes into my relationship with my sweetie Shelly, and what she is seeking to accomplish with her life. If you like, you can read it
here.
