On the topic of living longer...Scientists have developed a drug that will cause cells to deteriate slower, aka longer life. For example, when tested on flies(whose normal life span is 9 days), their life span increased to an average of two months(about 600%). If this drug could be put to human use, an average lifespan of 500 years could be attained. But why in the world would anyone live for 500 YEARS?!?! As it is, the average human life span has already increased twofold since the Middle Ages. Already, the human race has become a plague unto itself, kind of like a man bitten by a cobra on the arm, the appendage is now more of a hinderance than anything. Therefore, he must amputate it if he wants to live, unless he recieves medicine in enough time. Unfortunately, the threat of overpopulation has no medicine. Only something like killing off billions of people would be able to preserve balance. But we value those human lives, so we cannot destroy them. So, in the end, we will end up, literaly, killing ourselves.
And because I feel like it, I will give you a little known fact, more humans are alive today than the amount of humans that have ever died.
As to life after death, I believe there is. I am also open to a theory that I have created, life before life. Imagine, for a second, that your entity, your soul, has always been and always will be. That you have lived an infintite number of lives in an infinite number of bodies in an infinie number of universes, and you always will be. I'm talking about being fish, dogs, alien species, etc. forever and wherever you might appear. With no knowledge of past lives whatsoever.
As for death, it is needed, it is unavoidable, and, in the right quantities, can be like steroids for an ecosystem.
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