Medicine and advances in technology help people live longer. What purpose is that suppose to achive? Conquer nature?
2006-06-11 18:35:39 · 19 answers · asked by Jose 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
I see it as both good and bad. On the one hand, you'll enjoy more time with friends and family and actually watch your future generation develop. On the other hand, you'll work longer hours, constantly re-educate yourself (because we all know that the information in the working world keeps changing) and consequently need more money to fund your longer retirement period. Moreover, if people started to consistently live centuries at a time, then we'll have a serious problem with overpopulation and destroy the planet much sooner. So again, I ask, what's the point of living longer than we have to? (If you can give me an answer that's not emotion-based, you'll get the points.)
2006-06-11 19:01:00 · update #1
Excellent question. Hopefully some of those medical advances address quality of life as well, so that we aren't all a bunch of shut-in 120 year-olds. Accepting our mortality would seem to be a healthy thing to do, though I'm not eager to go anytime soon myself. . .
2006-06-11 18:40:51 · answer #1 · answered by Jack 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is okay to live longer as long as there is some quality of life or at least some enjoyment. When medicine or technology cannot help improve my quality of life, then I should die. If I am 90 yrs old and still golfing, living is good. If I am 90 yrs old and bed bound and stroked out I should be allowed to die.
If the average lifespan is 126, GOD IT WOULD SUCK TO RETIRE AT 85.
Remember the movie Logan's Run. Life must end at 30.
2006-06-11 18:47:13 · answer #2 · answered by julius 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is a blessing and we should be grateful for every day. Tomorrow isn't promised. We're only here for a short period of time so we should make the most of it. And regardless of technology, when it's your time to go, it's your time. Living longer gives a person the blessing of experiencing more in life. I'm an RN and watched a 3 day old baby die in an intensive care unit. It made me think...what right do I have to ever use the word "unfair?"
2006-06-11 18:46:28 · answer #3 · answered by Frankie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For me it's to keep on enjoying life. I dont think anyone really wants to die, well maybe some people do, but the will to live instinct is automatically inside every living thing, including plants and animals. Thats why when you think something bad is going to happen to you you try to avoid it, like if someone points a gun at you your first instinct is to try to run or get away. Or an animal in the middle of the road that sees you coming will run. We all try to avoid death. If we did'nt care, then life would not thrive. We would all die at a young age.
I think unless you are experiencing excrushiating agony and /or pain then working and stuff is still worth living to most people, because we feel we are making our lives better for whatever reason, and we think that we will be happier later because of it.
2006-06-11 18:40:55 · answer #4 · answered by Sidereality 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good question. the purpose for some is to experience other aspects of life, to travel and learn new things, learn to play an instrument or sports. to live to see their grand children or great grand children. but even if you could live till 200, there is no guarantee you could die in a freak accident when you are 20.
2006-06-11 18:39:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
living longer gives us an opportunity to learn the things in life that we have yet to learn...it gives us the opportunity to make changes in this world, to touch more lives, to influence others to do good and to show a good example to the rest of the world...living longer lets us experience the good things that life can give us; to notice the beautiful things that God wanted us to see...
2006-06-11 18:44:18 · answer #6 · answered by adiktedtoian14 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you had to pick a day to die, could you? We all have a desire to live longer because life is a wonderful gift. We have people that we love that we want to be with more. And we have goals that we want to achieve.
2006-06-11 18:40:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes I agree, haha. Ofcourse I don't think that medicine is bad or that we shouldn't try to treat serious things. But we have to die at some point...it's inevitable.
2006-06-11 18:42:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
live longer to spend more time with freinds family, learn more, do more... have more fun... challenge the insesant death that assasinates us from afar!
2006-06-11 18:37:45 · answer #9 · answered by justin l 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The point is " just to live". It's lots of fun, you should try it sometime.
2006-06-11 18:42:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋