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Long Life Research Paper

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What would happen if one were in constant fear of a deadly disease? Or if one cannot find new jobs to support their family? These are the certain results if humans prolong their life. Firstly, extending the human life will lead to overpopulation. Secondly, the prolonged lifespan will cause people to become selfish, bored, and change their beliefs. Lastly, experimenting with human genetics as well as with modifying other species will result in new diseases, extinction of certain species, and the creation of invasive species. Therefore, enhancing the human life must be ceased since it puts too much of a risk on the future generations. Lengthening the human lifespan and reviving people similar to Jenna Fox will result in overpopulation. Furthermore, population explosion will demand additional infrastructure such as transportation, residential areas, and services.This will put a strain on the available …show more content…

Similarly, there is a possibility that the parent will outlive their children, which would cause great psychological stress. To counter this, Jenna decided to go to Boston so that she wouldn’t have to deal with outliving her child (Her expected lifespan in Boston was 6 years, while in California it was expected for her to live for about 200 years). As a human being can virtually be immortal, they could become narcissistic, monstrous in their thinking, and behave inhuman. Consequently, the world would turn into an era of terror. Furthermore, the organs can always be 3D printed (as in the article about lab grown organs)and people would lose faith in religion resulting in the disruption of order and balance of the world. In addition, families will often be deciding to revive the deceased, unaware of their wishes. As scientists begin to perfect repairing and reviving humans, there could be serious errors in the genetic makeup of

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