Why are humans living longer or should I say rotting longer.?

Answer 1

Better health care, you can survive anything nowadays... plus, have you ever noticed on say, a fairground ride, there are signs saying 'do not climb out while the ride is moving' same with a pack of peanuts ' may contain nuts' we are not allowing our stupid people to kill themselves off! In the stone ages if some fool desides to jump off a cliff then people will say 'hey, thats sad - the bloody fool' but now we don't let them do that, therefore they are just breeding and eventually we'll have a society of pure prats.

Answer 2

I agree with the other answers here to the question of living longer. To address your other implied question about why we're rotting longer: it's a mystery, I reckon.

People have been striving for longer life for so long that it seems very few question how useful it actually is. The big problem is that all the extra life is necessarily tacked onto the end, rather than the beginning. Those who wish to live longer seldom, I think, consider it in terms of painfully pushing a Zimmer-frame around for an extra decade, racked with pain and failing senses.

In 'Gulliver's Travels,' Jonathan Swift deals ingeniously and presciently with this problem in his description of the Struldbrugs, who are immortal but continue aging, eventually becoming wretched, walking corpses. Our own increasing longevity has the same drawbacks.

It seems that we are designed by nature to live until about forty, by which time in a non-technological world we fall prey to disease, physical trauma or inability to fend for ourselves. While it may be an improvement to be able to avoid these ends, the extra life is not necessarily worth having, and the deaths that come to us eventually can still be quite ghastly - mindlessly drowning in our own sputum in cancer hospices, for instance.

We thought we wanted eternal life, but it's become plain that eternal *youth* is the real prize. Until science can deliver, I'm going when I've had enough and while I still can.

CD

Answer 3

well everything that used tio kill people off years ago has a cure and the ones that we cant cure we have seemed to stretch out over years instead of months even 20 years ago if you had cancer they told you and you died within a year now you can beat some or at least keep you healthy enough to live even thought its in and out of the hospital for a long time

Answer 4

Medicine is eradicating diseases that should be keeping our numbers in check.
That and a better, healthier diet.

Answer 5

modern medicine is keeping us alive