Old age is not natural.

It just doesn't happen in the wild where the lifestyle is healthy and every animal is physically fit and active.

We, on the other hand, propped up by modern medicine, live way past our sell-by dates like shriveled brown leaves clinging to branches of trees in the harshness of winter.

It's not natural.

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Lackwittyname · 51-55, M

True in a sense, sure prior to medicine people died much earlir, 30's and 40's, 50 was considered old. But I would also argue that the brain is part of us, it is natural. As time has gone on we have learned from mistakes, learned from experimentation and evolved, just as animals have evolved over time as well. Granted animals are mostly physically evolving, as are humans, but our brains separate us from most animals, though certainly their brains evolve as well.

So in the end we have evolved and naturally developed unnatural ways of existing longer.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@Lackwittyname There is nothing wrong with the unnatural life we have created insofar as making our life better is concerned. Like the machine we make, our body also has an estimated life span. We don't fly planes till they break up in the sky. Our bodies need to be decommissioned accordingly.

Lackwittyname · 51-55, M

@sree251 But we repair planes and keep flying them, just as we repair humans and keep living with them. No, we do not fly planes until they break up, but we do extend their life cycle, just as we do with humans, who then die (longer than an unrepaired vessal) as they did in the past, just as planes are retired when they are done.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@Lackwittyname Jetliners are repaired as long as the cost to do so is worth the return of investment. What is the economic value to keeping you alive?

Lackwittyname · 51-55, M

@sree251 Contributions back to society, and not everyone gets repaired

sree251 · 41-45, M

@Lackwittyname What contributions? You pay taxes that go to pay mainly 1. healthcare, 2. social security,and 3. foreign wars. 1 and 2 are for old people that no longer contribute.