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With the fast development of medical technology, many diseases can be easily cured and life has been prolonged compared to ancient times, there is no doubt that people wish to live longer. However, what if, by the end of this century, we could more than double average life-span to more than 200 years? Given this possibility, there are issues that should be thoroughly discussed and debated. As far as I am concerned, just like coins have two sides, we have to view the things in different angles. First of all, the rule that “anyone will die in the long run” naturally keeps the balance of the ecosphere. If the life-span can be prolonged , one of the direct consequence is the population of our planet will increase dramatically and the number of people may become so large that it exceeds the carrying capacity of the planet, making life miserable for the vast majority of humans, even sowing the seeds for our own destruction. For example, there are limited lands for us to cultivate food plants, in this case, there must be one day that we will not be able to feed everybody. Finally people will die from hunger. Secondly, the quality of life for very old people may be severely diminished if changing the boundaries of aging is not accompanied by reasonably good health. Certain Tissues and organs may deteriorate even as life-span is markedly prolonged, so old people may live with ever-worsening sight, hearing, mental functions. Meanwhile, we might be expected to work, support ourselves. This would likely to create intense adversarial relations between younger and older persons as they compete for limited jobs and resources. However, we need to admittedly that there are good sides if the life-span has been prolonged. Our society may achieve greater success if people could live longer. As we all know that knowledge and experiences are accumulated with people growing older. There will be more master pieces if those scientists could live longer. To sum up, although there are some advantages for average life-span being pro-longed, the disadvantages have over weigh the advantages. Since our planet has limited sources, and make people not living so miserable and struggling, to pro-long life span is a good will, but it will turned out to be disaster when to achieve the extreme. |
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