Argument Against Aging

Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you”-Abbé Faria Life has it 's ups and downs. What is important to know is how to react in a constructive fashion to your problems, so you won 't make that same mistake again. “Die? Oh, no,” he exclaimed -- “not die now, after having lived and suffered so long and so much!

Although some treatments kill healthy cells and sometimes shorten a person’s life expectancy, experiencing new treatments becomes a great idea due to the fact that experimenting and finding new treatments can help make a person live longer than what was expected. In Bradley’s case, she was able to live for a year longer other than her diagnosed three months. In Michael Specter’s article, “The Gene Hackers”, he mentions that by making new treatments and experiments people are able to comprehend more about the cells and how they function. Even though “every cancer is a specific personal disease” (Specter 57), it is important to research and test new hypotheses or else it will stay unknown as to what can either help or ruin a person 's recovery. Eric Lander believes that “there will be an enormous chat... it will contain the therapeutic road map of every trick that cancer cells have - how they form and all the ways you can defeat them, and all the ways they can escape and defeat a treatment” (Specter 57).

The argument of these chapters of A Year of Magical Thinking focus on how we perceive we would deal with grief/death, and how Joan Didion actually deals with. It also covers the fact that moving forward with life, after a death, has to be a conscious decision. Also, it is a decision that can only be made by those who are grieveing. (Didion, 2005) I agree with the fact that grief is an abstract topic. It sounds so cliché to say that you do not understand the grieving process until you have to deal with it, but it is true.

Zack Arne Mrs. Veitch Per. 6 Surgery or not surgery that is the question Imagine that you had an IQ of 68. Life would be really hard, people would make fun of you or pity you. But you have a chance to have a surgery that would triple your IQ. But there would be a risk that you could die.

I strongly doubt if EjacuMax will be that effective for these functions considering its constituents, such as the claim to ejaculate up to 500% more sperm. In one review about EjacuMax found in another website, it was described to contain some holistic relaxants, which I will say it is more like it. Ginseng, a known constituent seen in most male enhancement formulas, has been used for many decades to treat erectile fatigue and boost sexual performance. It also improves sexual satisfaction in men with premature ejaculation. This cannot be the case of the ingredients found in the EjacuMax’s formula.

Burzynski as a doctor solely trying to help patients that would likely die without his treatment. The movie uses convincing rhetorical strategies throughout to make its case that antineoplastons are only being denied because the FDA is victimizing a doctor. Most effective were the countless stories presented by the patients’ families begging that a father or son’s life be saved all the while dramatic music played in the background. Unfortunately, this movie provided these patients with a “false hope” because the claims were not statistically proven. Although the movie credited antineoplastons as the “most important discovery in cancer treatment – ever” (Burzynski), clinical evidence as well as dangerous results do not support this biased claim.

In Frank Furedi’s reading, “Our Unhealthy Obsession with Sickness”, he concludes that the health care crisis which we are going through will not change nor get better. To some extent I agree with Mr. Furedi’s writing. He discusses how in recent times, people in society are normalizing having an illness and are willingly open to talking about them (471). Furedi also mentioned how people now embrace having an illness, rather than noticing their worth before they were sick. I too have noticed that it is becoming increasingly acceptable to the extent that people want something to be wrong with them, which I find extremely odd.

Dyck’s book, “Life’s Worth: The Case against Assisted Suicide,” details why PAS is unethical. One of Dyck’s first arguments comes from a story in which a patient, who initially requested PAS but later found enjoyment in other things and turned away from PAS. His argument stands in which he says that patient’s wishes can change and that when they find happiness and solace in other things they will understand that PAS is not the way to go (Dyck, 14-15). Dyck also explores the concept of how PAS is not as effective as comfort-only care. The physician has to remain willing to care for and the patient has to remain willing to be cared for and that is a respect for life.

The controversy over stem cell research is one of the most heated and debated issues in today’s society. The higher cost of such therapy makes it an ethical concern as this will not be within our means for the ordinary person (Dresser, 2010). The costs associated with research and clinical trials will be through the roof, but these costs will reduce as time and our knowledge evolves. Once successful, it will inevitably become a trend in the future. Stem cell therapy is at its beginning stages and already we see results that we once thought were inconceivable.

A full life is not one without learning along the way. Maturing is also apart of living a full life,sure if you have curiosity to do something your living full, but you might think twice if you thought long term. After i broke my arm i learned that my curiosity outweighed my judgement, and if i had just thought a little ahead i could have saved myself from getting hurt. There is a prime example of this in Roni Jacobson 's article,Curiosity is not Intrinsically good as it states “Thinking about long term consequences is key to mitigating the negative effects of curiosity”. This means that if you think long term about your curios thoughts, you can make a better judgement on how to act.