Originally when I was posed this question my immediate response was to return the Immortality pill (IP). The reason I initially responded this way, and still remain set on my belief had plenty to do with the factors involved. First, if I were to take the Immortality pill I would already know my horrific demise, such as an accident, war victim, or suicide. Secondly, just as suicide effects not only the person committing the act, but more so the family and friends in that individuals life, yet the same concept is present when making the decision to take this pill. It is just as selfish to put yourself above the values of what is morally important. Thirdly, by taking this pill it would detract from the meaning and purpose of time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. Lastly, you as the individual that is now immortal would in essence be playing God, by altering destiny itself. In the process, if you’re loved ones decided not to purchase and take this pill you would eventually have to witness everyone you care about around you pass on.
Although extremely deceiving, there would be many negative effects on human relationships in general. There would be no need for much of the medical industry and plenty of people would lose there careers, hurting the economy tremendously. Socially, this would impact the way people relate to each other, such as “how are you felling today?”, and “sorry to hear about your mother who is ill!”
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In conclusion, there still needs to be a lot of work done to health care in the United States. Other nations provide universal health care to their citizens, but this would cause dilemmas in balancing two often conflicting policy goals: providing the public with equitable access to needed pharmaceuticals while controlling the costs. Universal health care probably would not work in the U.S. because our nation is so diverse and our economy is so complex. The system we have now obviously has its problems, and there is a lot of rom for improvement. HMO’s will still create problems for people and their medical bills, but they definitely should be monitored to see that their patients are receiving just treatment.
For my final project I chose to compare two works of art from ancient Mesopotamia. A visual work of art and a literary one. The visual work of art I chose was the Statuettes of Worshipers which were created around 2900 to 2350 BCE at the Square Temple at Eshnunna, a city in ancient Mesopotamia. The literary artwork I have chosen is the Epic of Gilgamesh written roughly around 2800 BCE by author or authors unknown. It was set in Uruk, another city in ancient Mesopotamia. Both of these works of art share a common theme; the theme of immortality. It is my hopes that within this paper I can accurately show how each of these works of art express this theme, and how it relates to modern society.
The idea of “Outliving Oneself” depends on the concepts of trauma and most importantly the self, in a situation where said trauma obliterates the self for an indefinite amount of time. Brison presents the self in three interwoven parts: the embodied self, the self as narrative, and the autonomous self. Any of these parts of self depend largely on the individual’s society, culture, and interactions with other people. The embodied self represents the self in conjunction with the physical body, which our society separates from the self, to intimate a soul or personality, and also assigns genders to certain traits. Trauma dissolves this separation of body and mind because violence brings the traumatized to face their own mortality. They have to see their body as an object because their assailant treats it as an object. Trauma is so damaging because the self cannot exert any power whatsoever; the interaction between the assailant and the victim, essentially a social situation, robs the victim of a voice, because the assailant ignores it, a personality, because it is of no consequence to the assailant, and a self, because the assailant uses the body as an object, and the body plays a more central role in the interaction than the self does. Brison quotes Cathy Winkler in saying a rape is a “social murder,” because the rapist’s part in the interaction defines the victim through their actions that take away the victim’s sense of self. Any control that the victim felt over their body gets taken from them by the rapist. The consequences of this trauma include a loss of control over physiological functions, such as emotion and incapacitation from anxiety; the body and mind are out of balance, which leads the victim to be stigmatized by societ...
Imagine your laying in a hospital bed hooked up to various machines. The doctors and nurses are persistently coming in to check up on you while you’re trying to get through the pain, weakness and slow wasting away of your body. On top of that you are grieving the side effects from numerous drugs, constipation, restlessness, you can barely breathe. You have no appetite because you are constantly throwing up. The doctors have given you little to no chance of survival; and death is at hand, it is just a matter of when. You have said your goodbyes, you have come to terms with dying and you are ready to meet your creator. Now if you had the chance to choose how and when your life ended would you take advantage of it?
The search for the "fountain of youth" or the "elixir of life" is something that we have read about in many myths and fiction stories throughout the year. They are also things real life explorers looked for dating back centuries, the most famous of which is Ponce de Leon whose search of this elusive fountain took him to Florida in the late 1400 's and early 1500 's. However, He was not the first looking for this fountain that is said to give you the power of endless youth, the desire to stay young is a desire that may date back to the beginning of mankind itself. Although, as civilization has advanced through the centuries most people have given up on magical fountain and elixirs that extends your life while making you young again, and turned to
universal insurance. The middle class families would not be impacted as much as working class
The way men and other races view immortality differs depending on who knows the proper knowledge regarding who holds the immortality. Those who hold the immortality may not fully understand the impact of what it is to be mortal, or may use their knowledge of immortality to their advantage. In Tolkien’s work, the race of Elves are blessed with immortality, and others recognize them as ”immortal were the Elves, and their wisdom waxed from age to age, and no sickness nor pestilence brought death to the...
I say that the world would be a better place. Technology would be super advanced. That is because the people would work hard to make the best. Medicine would be able to cure almost anything. People would live longer and create more technology. This would increase the amount of people on the earth. This would incite people to grow more food. This would make food technology more advanced and then more people could live here. Thus creating a cycle of creation and rebuilding for our
The system will raise our taxes detrimentally and cause major income problems for millions worldwide. It will cause our government to weaken and cause our already huge amounts of debt to increase exponentially. It will over work our hospital system and decrease the efficiency and resources in our health care systems currently. While the system appears to have only positive effects, Universal Health Care will cause more problem in our nation than it can fix. Universal Health Care in reality hides the dangers that come with it and that can cause major damages in multiple scenarios. The most important thing to remember is to vote against this policy, if we fully understand what we are being handed we can say no.
If this system went was forced into act, it is predicted that citizens will overuse their health privileges. Dr. David Kelley, PhD, reported when “...Medicaid went into effect in 1964, people living below the poverty line saw physicians 20% less...” However, when those poverty level patients were placed on Medicare, they “...saw physicians 18% more often than people who were not on Medicaid” (Atlas Society). Further explaining, people could take advantage of free medical services. However, referring back to the quote, individuals without Medicaid were not seeing physicians, more than likely because of the lack of health insurance or Medicaid. The data shows poverty-stricken citizens’ physician visits went up 18% after Medicaid was implemented, but isn’t that the whole point of healthcare? It continues with “...18% more often…” than those not on Medicaid, again leading back to the idea that those who are not covered, cannot afford medical attention. Implementing universal healthcare would allow doctors to financially proceed, possibly creating more offices for all of the citizens covered by the universal system. Once the nation’s health has been taking care of, citizen’s can then worry about economically saving our country by continuing their education, or possibly becoming business owners. Without universal healthcare, many intelligent, important, economic leaders and tax paying citizens could
There can be some unintended consequence of having national health care system some of them are it can increase the taxes, it can create a doctor shortage, and it can also lower the quality and availability of disease screening and treatment
What would life be like if death wasn’t a thing? Death is an agonizing pain that leaves a scar on the people who have to experience it. Yet, Death is apart of all life no matter how devastating it is. However, even if we all know this, it doesn’t make it any easier to say goodbye. Jazzy and I had known each other since 4th grade. She had just moved to Hampton and I had just moved there a year earlier. We both were in the same class, she had a bright and bubbly personality that shined even on the darkest days. While I was quiet and isolated unless answering a question or talking to the few friends I had. Little did we know we were going to end up best friends until father time decided it was time for her to go, because,
Individuals may not get the assistance they require or get inadequate care. For example, a client went to the hospital here and found out she has ovarian cancer and a colon infection. Although she is sick, the hospital dismissed her without treatment because she doesn’t have insurance. The hospital explained she needed surgery ASAP to determine if her cancer is malignant or benign, but she would need to inquire about Medicaid, and it could take three months; in other words, they sent her home to die. I believe universal health care could cut down on illegal drug use, considering people without insurance seek other opportunities to control pain. All general human services will prompt extraordinary mutilation in the economy. It could be an initial move towards government controlling another part of the economy and diminish the measure of cost specialists can make along these lines lessening the fascination in
Would you want to live forever ? My position on this topic is equal upon
Throughout the history of the world humans have been intrigued by a condition referred to as immortality. Immortality is the state in which one defies death, thus conquering the realm of being a mortal. Scientists have searched for ways to create this phenomenon. With there over thought out and complex ideas they had managed to overlook the obvious. People had been achieving immortality for years. The key is not in physical exesistance but in your actions, creations, and reputation which will live on long after you die. T.L. Lange, a reputable artist from Atlanta Georgia, once said "Music and art play the dominant roles in life. In the liberation from the self, the ripples which are left to be remembered. It is in this moment that we achieve immortality and imagine what goes well with corn flakes…."