Do you think the problem with human longevity will be solved once scientists find cures for all diseases or do you think?

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Yes, our lives will be extended. I believe that our lives will be extended when we can get away from most of the poisons in our food, air, water and lives in general. While diseases like influenza and cholera are almost gone, we are being overcome by cancer, diabetes, asthma and heart disease.

Maybe stop messing with our lives and we will all grow healthier. Long life is pretty bleak, if it is spent in a hospital bed. Quality of life has to account for something..

Essentially, we are programmed. Every time a human cell divides a telomere shortens. These are 'caps' or folded sections on the end of each chromosome which are essential to the life of the cell.

A good website is here: users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/Biolo... Once the telomere is short, the cell dies. Enough cells die and the entire organism dies. Our age limit appears to be about 120 years.

I'm not sure I would want to live that long, though. At half that right now, enough is wrong already that I don't mind going before that age limit is reached! .

We can lengthen the natural lifespan, but it's an uphill battle. The human life expectancy for people in the modern world is continually rising, on the whole. I think the better medicine gets, the easier it will be for us to live longer, more healthy lives.At the same time, I don't think that we'll ever find immortality in the human body - it wasn't designed to live forever.

As we age, I think we'll run into diminishing returns: the older you get, the more difficult it is to stay young. There are many problems we need to overcome, to stay young. The primary problem is that the human body just isn't made to stay alive forever.

From a genetic standpoint, all people need to do is stay alive long enough to reproduce and then insure that the next generation reaches reproductive age. Evolutionarily, there is no need for people to live any longer than that, so there has been no selective pressure for the human race to become exceptionally long lived. Further, nobody picks their mate based on how long their grandparents lived, so there's no intentional breeding for long life.

So our first problem is simply trying to coax the human body to keep working at it's prime much longer than it has developed to work. A difficult task, since there are so many things which can and do go wrong as we age. Beyond that though, we have a number of other problems with living exceptionally long lives.

As humans are developing, so too the diseases which attack our bodies are developing, and they're a lot faster than we are. In a single human generation, bacteria and viruses will have hundreds, thousands, or more generations. They can quickly develop means to counter our natural and manufactured defenses.

I don't think we'll ever be completely free of diseases, although good sanitation, hygiene, vaccinations, and modern medicine do a lot to make our lives with diseases longer and more healthy. Finally, there are countless ways we can get hurt or die, and the longer we live, the greater our chances to succumb to an unnatural death or serious injury. Every day, we put ourselves at risk in numerous ways, driving, swimming, using power tools, climbing a ladder, walking across the street, petting a strange dog, and on and on.

The chances of any single person having a life threatening accident or being attacked by another person are fairly small, but the longer we live, the greater those chances get. The longer people live, the more crowded it gets and the greater chance you'll be a victim of crime or that you'll have an accident.So even if we do a great deal to combat the natural ravages of time and disease and abuse on the body, injuries add up, accidents happen, and crime is always a possibility. I am certain that as time goes on, as medicine advances, as we learn more about the human body, we'll live longer, better lives.

But between people who try to hold back medicine and science, the natural evolution of diseases, the tendency of the body to decay, and the dangers of the world around us, it won't be easy. MightyCow_DontFollow's Recommendations The First Immortal: A Novel Of The Future Amazon List Price: $7.99 Used from: $0.01 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 139 reviews) An interesting look at some of the potential problems with immortality.

Expiration date, but scientists may be able to adjust that somewhat in the future. I think that even if we came up with "cures" for every disease (and most cures nowadays are just managing or suppressing not reversing the diseases), the human body and its cells just accumulate too much damage over time to work properly. The best that the cures-for-diseases can do is make the time we have more enjoyable.

However, I think that someday science will figure out how to slow down or repair much of the damage that is just due to aging, so human longevity will probably be much longer in the future than it is now.

I don't think we are programmed with a longevity date However, we certainly have suggestions from scientists about how to live longer lives - e.g. Not smoking, having balanced diets with enough fruits and vegetables, getting regular checkups, etc. That many of us do not follow faithfully.In addition, some of the cures (e.g. Chemo for cancer) can be horrific and some people give up rather than deal with the side effects. Some of the cures are very expensive and people cannot afford them, so... I don't think even given everything capable of being cured suggests that the problem will be solved because of other external factors.In addition, I really believe in evolution - and I believe I have witnessed reports on the evolution of new diseases: e.g. AIDS, medication resistant pneumonia, ebola...and lots of other things of which I know noting - so, I think evolution itself will keep scientists busy for a long time. Further, we all have an impact on our environment through pollution, through new ways of growing food, through genetic manipulation.

Who knows the effects of these? So, I suspect it remains a good idea to be a doctor, a scientist, or an undertaker.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.