Essay On Future Of Life

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Humans are interesting creatures with a high amount of unlimited potential. One potential we have is living a life over a century long. Living for more than a century is not rare in today's day and age. If the human lifespan did increase to over a century-long, so many different changes would substantially take effect on our economy and society. Firstly, society would be less wary about their well being if they knew that they have the potential of living to one-hundred forty years. I would think our society would be more obese than we are today. In a world where life is extended, people would brush off their priorities since they have all their life to correct it. If they decide to eat so much, they have all their lives to change and fix that.This would mean that people have many chances at life or just a lot of time to change. It would mean that people would not take their life as serious as they should. In a world where people live over a century, being lazy and unhealthy would be less frowned upon much more than today. The social norm would change and eat wrong foods, avoiding physical activities such as exercise will be more likely. This would make people take their everyday life for granted. I for one would be taking my life for granted if the human race did extend its lifespan. My life would not be …show more content…

It would take effect because of how long we’re living. As of now, we have 7 billion people in the world today. It’s growing as little by little and we’re near if not overpopulated currently. If we’re overpopulated now, what happens if we live longer? If we live twice the average lifespan we have now, the death toll would be less than the birth rate. Babies would be growing old as two centuries with our medicine advancing even further knowing that medical professionals would have longer lives. A lot of productivity but a very serious consequence with too many people living on earth at

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