Not Only Off The Body Today the population of America obsesses with the idea to live longer that no time remains to live. The fact that reaching to physical immortality is impossible was clear long ago . Humans the brightest minds even were not able to create an immortal. Achilles , whose body except for the heel , was invulnerable , nonetheless , was killed . TV shows teach us how to kill supernatural immortals. Humans are mortal. Thus we need, at least, to find a way how to live longer . Nowadays obsession to extend live spam for any price, makes life miserable , and gives a weapon to the arms those who try to make money on this, or manipulate with this. Antonio Regalado, in the article, Google to Try to Solve Death LOL,
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According to CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, the overall age-adjusted death rate fell by 15.7% between 2000 and 2012. Ezakeil Emmanuel, an American bioethicist, agrees that "American immortals" may live longer than their parents, but he has a fear, that they will be more incapacitated. How many of this 15.7% are actually alive? Rene Descartes, a France philosopher of 17th century, stated "I think, therefore I am." The ability of thinking; this is what makes us to be alive, and to be a human. My friend Mary 's mother, who has an Alzheimer 's disease, is in a nursing home for nearly seven years. There is no cure, and there couldn 't be any improvement. She doesn 't remember anyone. She doesn 't speak either. She forgets how to walk three years ago, and how to eat a year ago. During these seven years, there were two other health issues. My friend and the whole medical personal fight till the end to save her live. Once Mary proudly stated that if they weren 't in America her mother would not be alive today. I asked her, what she thinks, if for a second her mother gets back consciousness and someone asks her to choose between the life, like she has, and died, what would she said?" "She would choose dying," answered Mary. Keeping these terminally sick people alive by force is not the manifestation of …show more content…
Ancient times people considered life as a gift that was given to them, thus they could do something significant . After more than two thousand years ago , at age 27 , Alexandre the Great died . Still, people remember his name . Then came time when the true love was the meaning of life . Then times of duels came, when honor was placed in the highest position among the meanings of life . Due to this we lost great scientists and poets in their young ages . Or maybe they were geniuses because they lived in time of crazy ideas and adventures . In time when it wasn 't only off the body. What is the purpose of life today? Could life be its own purpose? The only scientific study in the area of the longevity , " The Longevity Project," discovered an interesting truth; people , who live a purposeful life and help others, live
According to CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, the overall age-adjusted death rate fell by 15.7% between 2000 and 2012. Ezakeil Emmanuel, an American bioethicist, agrees that "American immortals" may live longer than their parents, but he has a fear, that they will be more incapacitated. How many of this 15.7% are actually alive? Rene Descartes, a France philosopher of 17th century, stated "I think, therefore I am." The ability of thinking; this is what makes us to be alive, and to be a human. My friend Mary 's mother, who has an Alzheimer 's disease, is in a nursing home for nearly seven years. There is no cure, and there couldn 't be any improvement. She doesn 't remember anyone. She doesn 't speak either. She forgets how to walk three years ago, and how to eat a year ago. During these seven years, there were two other health issues. My friend and the whole medical personal fight till the end to save her live. Once Mary proudly stated that if they weren 't in America her mother would not be alive today. I asked her, what she thinks, if for a second her mother gets back consciousness and someone asks her to choose between the life, like she has, and died, what would she said?" "She would choose dying," answered Mary. Keeping these terminally sick people alive by force is not the manifestation of …show more content…
Ancient times people considered life as a gift that was given to them, thus they could do something significant . After more than two thousand years ago , at age 27 , Alexandre the Great died . Still, people remember his name . Then came time when the true love was the meaning of life . Then times of duels came, when honor was placed in the highest position among the meanings of life . Due to this we lost great scientists and poets in their young ages . Or maybe they were geniuses because they lived in time of crazy ideas and adventures . In time when it wasn 't only off the body. What is the purpose of life today? Could life be its own purpose? The only scientific study in the area of the longevity , " The Longevity Project," discovered an interesting truth; people , who live a purposeful life and help others, live