At this instant, somewhere
in the universe a baby is being born. As the show One Born Every Minute tells us, it is more accurately one born
every three seconds. In comparison, it is an extended rate of every seven seconds
at which people die. The ultimate goal of any care giving institution is to
work day at a time and prevent people from dying. We do all we can to prevent
death, when after all death is the only thing that is keeping societies alive.
Societies could not be proactive if people did not die off at a rate equal to
the birth rate. If people never died, would they still age? Because if they did
then we would have an infinitely growing number of old people who are
increasingly dependent on others for everything. And if people no longer age,
then there is very little use for any professions in the fields of age-related
diseases, leaving hundreds of thousands unemployed. Steve Jobs said that death
was one of the greatest inventions of life, because it is an unbiased
consistent way of clearing out the old to make room for the new. So does it
really make sense that we fight so hard against the inevitable?