Researches and developments in the field of medicine have made enormous changes in human life and well being, and their life expectancy has been increasing remarkably over the years.

How far is this statement true in your opinion?
Do you think elongating life expectancy is a good idea?

Human life has seen great changes thanks to medical innovations. As a result, today humans live longer than their counterparts used to. This is true to a greater extent. However, keeping human life longer is not so good for all all the time.

It is an undisputed fact that human life has witnessed phenomenal changes thanks to researches and development in medicine. There are several examples to prove it. Now almost all life threatening diseases have been brought under control, and there are cures for almost all ailments, except AIDS. Tuberculosis, Hepatitis B, cancers of all types etc. are examples. Besides, mortality and morbidity rates have taken newer levels over the years. Therefore, it goes without saying that medical innovations have made human life secure.

Coming to how appropriate it is to live a longer life in these days of population explosion and its resultant threats, I would say it is not so attractive an idea because, keeping life longer is extremely expensive, and not many can enjoy the benefit of such developments. However, from a personal point of view, everyone wants to live longer. Medicine comes to their help, too. But from an ecological and demographic point of view, elongating life through medical innovations is likely to do more harm than good by way of ecological disequilibrium.

To conclude it, it is a good idea to keep life longer. It is better still if such a life wouldn’t do any harm to the planet we are living in and to the living beings that live with man. So, medicine may help elongate human life, but human life should not endanger the Planet.

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