People these days happen to live longer lives thanks to the researches and developments in the field of medicine. This is taken by some as a matter of great concern whereas there are some who feel that it is blessing.

How do you look at these two views?

Research and development in the field of medicine is both blessing and bane in more than one count. From a personal point of view, it is great to be living longer, whereas, environmentally and ecologically speaking, longer lives pressurize the ecology in different ways.

Obviously, primary objective all the researches and developments in the field of medicine are meant for human well being, or to say, to keep humans lead healthier and longer life, to be precise. In this respect, longer life expectancy is what everyone is out looking for. Living a day more is much more valuable than any material possession one happens to have in one’s life. So precious is health or life. Besides this, today life is much more comfortable compared to the past, and people are ready to go to any length to keep their life going. So, medical researches and developments turn out to be a blessing.

On the other hand, longer life expectancy has greater environmental implications. That is population rate may keep going up, and the number of older people in the community will also go higher every passing day. This is a social problem too. It is very difficult either for the government or for the society to look after older people for long. It involves a lot of infrastructure and financial outlay from grassroots levels to national level. Increasing population exerts extra pressure on the ecology by way of resources, food and raw material. So, longer life is a problem.

To conclude it, not many would deny the fact that it is worth living longer. But, we cannot ignore the fact that the world has to welcome many more generations to come. Living healthier is fine, but living an unhealthy longer life is no good.

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