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Reversing The Aging Process, Should We? - Research Paper

Reversing The Aging Process, Should We?


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In the length of time measured as human lifetime one can expect to see a full
range of differing events. It is assumed that during a lifetime a person will
experience every possible different emotion. If one is particularly lucky, he
will bear witness to, or affect some momentous change in humanity. However is it
reasonable to ask what would be experienced by someone who lived two lifetimes?
Up until recently the previous question would and could only be rhetorical.
There is no answer, because no one has ever lived that long. Of course that was
up until now.

At McGill University, nematodes (tiny organisms) have experienced five lifetimes
(Kluger). Through complex scientific experiments ...

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the
aging process man is using himself as the ultimate canvas, to play the role of
the omnipotent.

Research into the process of aging began in 1961(Rose, Technology Review:64).
Since then a great deal of time, money and effort have been appropriated into
discovering the causes of aging, it can therefore be inferred that humanity has
an almost "personal" interest in aging. Of course the culmination of discovering
how we age, is discovering how to stop it. An intrinsic characteristic of Man is
His obsession with superficiality. Superficiality is equated with appearance.
The appearance of beauty can be equated with youth. Therein lies man’s obsession
with age, ceasing to age means being eternally beautiful. As usual man’s actions
are dominated by ego and self-preservation. Within the confines of youth there
lies a certain fountain of power. Power which cannot be accessed once one ages.
Things like physical and sexual prowess. The time of youth is often refereed to
as the "prime of your ...

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point of growing
old and having to suffer through ulcers, cataracts, hemorrhoids, and cancer. Isn’
t it better to die young and healthy then to die old, infirm and brittle?" The
essential question being proposed is one of quality versus quantity. Is it
better to live for a long time with much of that time spent in dialysis, or is
it preferable to enjoy a short but "fun" life. Even if the scientists can cure
humanity of the ailments of the elders, there still remains the question of how
to manage one’s time. "We’re bored" has often been used as the battle cry of
youth, people who haven’t even lived two decades. What are people who have lived
twelve decades supposed to do? These questions ...

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Added: 7/9/2008 07:09:32 PM
Category: Health & Medicine
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