Written by: Nayan Shakya - 29062, Grade VII
Posted on: 17 January, 2024
Every living animal has a certain life expectancy. Some live for days while some live for 100 years. But if anyone would be able to cross that line that does not enable us to live forever It would be a curse. It would be a curse because it has a lot of loopholes and it is also pretty much not possible.
If we were able to live forever then many bad things would occur. Firstly, the project of being able to live forever would be very costly. It is not an easy task to cross the life expectancy. Only rich people would be able to afford it so it would not be available for the other. Let us just imagine it is not costly. Everyone can afford it but now stands an even greater problem. We humans have populated the earth enough already by deforestation, over pollution, overuse of natural resources and many others. So if we had been alive forever we could not imagine the harm we would give the earth as we would be alive but still populating. It would lead earth to complete destruction. Overpopulation will be a major problem. Rise in demand increases space necessary for humans to settle. For which, we need to cut down trees in large amounts which would lead to a decrease in the amount of oxygen. Which would inevitably lead to the extinction of the human kind.
Living forever also means that crime rates would grow higher cause the criminals would also have access to living forever. Also if you are able to live forever then either they would grow old and not die or just stop at their current age. Which means if a 80 year old eats it their body is still weak as ever. You could also get killed very easily because it is just extending your life not immortality. Living forever could also cause your sanity to lose. It would diminish your memories because our life would be infinite, not the size of the brain. Slowly we would just get bored of life and start taking our own lives. Also we are unaffected by any diseases I think because it is just not possible we could all just die because of a rapid fire disease. We could possibly be killed by others of our own kind because humans are not trustworthy creatures. The earth has limited resources as it is just a small dot in this vast world. Earth as substances like air water land food etc. and if humans are able to live forever these all would be significantly decreased causing extinction.
The over population may also cause the extinction of other animals or it would indefinitely cause the extinction. In that case the human race would also be dead. Conquering other planets is not a choice because the other planets nearly don’t even have a fraction of earth’s wealth in resources. If we live for long and advance, robots will come to conquer the earth in the future. The theory could also come true and the replacement of humans to robots may be true or an asteroid would just demolish the earth just like the asteroid destroy dinosaurs theory. It could also lead to modification and creation of new species. Normally, it is not possible for an average human to live beyond a certain number but science is a thing that may be able to defy this law and help us live forever. It is also quite impossible because physics exists and our body starts degrading after a certain time. Blame physics for not being able to live but the thing that humans can live forever seems very much impossible and if it was even possible because it is not a very pleasant thing or to simply put it simply it is a curse.
In conclusion extending or making human life on earth is of course not a bliss but a curse.
