Reversing The Aging Process, Should We?

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Term Paper Title	Reversing The Aging Process, Should We?
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Reversing The Aging Process, Should We?

Reversing The Aging Process, Should We?

In the length of time measured as human lifetime one can expect to see a full
range of differing events. It is assumed that during a lifetime a person will
experience every possible different emotion. If one is particularly lucky, he
will bear witness to, or affect some momentous change in humanity. However is it
reasonable to ask what would be experienced by someone who lived two lifetimes?
Up until recently the previous question would and could only be rhetorical.
There is no answer, because no one has ever lived that long. Of course that was
up until now.

At McGill University, nematodes (tiny organisms) have experienced five lifetimes
(Kluger). Through complex scientific experiments nematodes and fruit flies have
had their lifespans increased not by fractions of life times, but by multiples
of lifetimes (Kruger). Mankind is using the discovery of DNA as an opportunity
to play G-d by changing the aging process. Man has a natural tendency to play
the role of G-d. Man has a an inherent need to affect others, be it through the
vises of war, power, manipulation or politics. However man’s natural tendency to
play G-d has reached it’s final manifestation. By attempting to slow down the
aging process man is using himself as the ultimate canvas, to play the role of
the omnipotent.

Research into the process of aging began in 1961(Rose, Technology Review:64).
Since then a great deal of time, money and effort have been appropriated into
discovering the causes of aging, it can therefore be inferred that humanity has
an almost "personal" interest in aging. Of course the culmination of discovering
how we age, is discovering how to stop it. An intrinsic characteristic of Man is
His obsession with superficiality. Superficiality is equated with appearance.
The appearance of beauty can be equated with youth. Therein lies man’s obsession
with age, ceasing to age means being eternally beautiful. As usual man’s actions
are dominated by ego and self-preservation. Within the confines of youth there
lies a certain fountain of power. Power which cannot be accessed once one ages.
Things like physical and sexual prowess. The time of youth is often refereed to
as the "prime of your life". It is therefore not difficult to understand and
conceive of man’s motivation to stay young and to wish that the immediate people
surrounding him stay young.

If a mathematician wished to create a formula to descri...

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