The idea of extending life challenges the circle of life: we come into this world, we live, and we leave. It is not right for people to go against that law and it is completely unethical. Radical life extension poses many threats to our society and would disrupt our way of life.
This idea has many disadvantages, especially to low income classes. This practice would emphasize the problems we already have with health care and treatments that prolong life and would set the gap between economic classes even more than it is today (Andersen). Sooner or later life extension will only be available to the upper class and all of the lower class will continue dying at, what is now, a normal age.
Radical life extension also diminishes the worth of life.
Dvorsky quotes Mckibben when he says that life would be meaningless without death and that the human race would lose the sense of sacrifice. The shortness of our life is what motivates us to accomplish all that we can with the time that we are given. He even goes on to say that it would take the honor out of life. There would be no reason to fight for your own country or lay down your life for someone, because who wants to shorten this newfound longevity of life? Without the knowing that death is not too far off, society will become relaxed and ungrateful for the life that they have been given.
We would start to become bored with our lives because eventually days would become routines and life would ultimately become boring as opposed to life how we know it now, knowing that we have a time limit to accomplish the things that we want to.
When speaking of this practice some people use the word “posthuman.” They say that radical life expansion decreases the worth of life and that eventually t...
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In an expanding scientific field, where do the possibilities of extending the natural human life end? Business Insider author Erin Brodwin illustrates just this in her article titled A surgeon aiming to do the first human head transplant says ‘Frankenstein’ predicted a crucial part of the surgery. Sergio Canavero, a neurosurgeon from Italy, states that he intends to be the first scientist to successfully carry out what numerous surgeons deem a radical experiment- a human head transplant. Plans to carry out said surgery are well underway, as Canavero already has a willing recipient for the operation. The source of this article is Business Insider, which is considered a legitimate news source. Therefore, there is little reason to further question
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It is difficult to conceive of two words more important to human existence than life and death. Certainly all of us know these words intimately, and have a deep understanding of their meaning. Life and death have been principal topics of discussion in political debate and popular dialog for decades. Having a clear understanding of life and death is essential to any discussion on abortion, embryonic stem cell research, end-of-life care, and organ donation. Yet despite the seemingly obvious nature of these words and their clearly obvious importance to our existence, it turns out that life and death are somehow difficult to define.
...age of Euthanasia. The quality of health care will decline. Physicians will not try as hard to save their patients lives because their would be an easy way out. Those unfortunate patients that receive misdiagnosis would end their lives for no reason. Finally in a moral aspect, life is a precious gift and everyone has a purpose. Taking away someone's purpose unnecessarily would be cruel and selfish.
...ink that Robertson’s article will help those who are middle of the road accept it better and hope that those who strongly oppose it see his viewpoint. Hopefully a lot of good will come out of research like this and it will benefit millions of people from giving them new life to giving them extended life.
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