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Essay On Immortality

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Physical immortality. I am of the firm belief that it is foolish to aspire for immortality. Do we need immortality? It would be a torture to live with the physical body with all the ailments, and the body not able to support all the systems. Probably with this imperfect body after a time one would be begging for relief in the form of death! It is not possible to live forever. Death is the final destination of the journey of life LONDON: If Aubrey de Grey's predictions are right, the first person who will live to see his /her 150th birthday has already been born. And the first person to live for 1,000 years could be less than 20 years younger. A biomedical gerontologist and chief scientist of a foundation dedicated to longevity research, de Grey reckons …show more content…

Given the chance, would you want to live forever? Every generation, a new ploy for outsmarting the reaper emerges--always futile, always in vain. But is the key to immortality within reach? Some people think that technology will help us cure diseases, build new organs, and essentially reprogram our bodies' faulty software. Futurist Ray Kurzweil calculates that 20 years is all it'll take for this exponential boom in computing power to help us live forever. But other scientists are more skeptical. They say that to understand immortality, we must understand our own DNA. If scientists are correct, jellyfish may hold the key to immortality -the minute creature has the ability to transform its cells back into a youthful state. As National Geographic puts it, the jellyfish transforms "into a blob-like cyst" that grows into a polyp colony -- the first stage of life. From there, the jellyfish continues a conventional lifecycle, maturing and mating. Instead of dying, however, the immortal jelly reverts, time and again, back into the polyp colony. That ability "allows the jellyfish to bypass death, rendering it biologically immortal," According to a study published in "Nature and

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