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 Indeed death is necessary for life to exist. Questions that have been brought up in class lately are whether we should continue to prolong human life. The issue of screen cancer raises this question in some degree. Humans are meant to die but I don't find it wrong to prolong our life at the end we will die anyways. There is only as much as we can do. What I like to stress is that everyone should have the choice to prolong their lives. 

I do think people are obsessed with not dying and that is why they do screenings or other tests. But what is the point if like professor Grobstein mention the report shows there is no significant change on death rate. Science will definitely improve but I think we still don't fully understand the balance that exists between molecules, atoms, DNA . Another example is cholesterol. Reducing cholesterol may prevent you of dying from a heart attack however you die of something else. This means we don't really understand how different things interact within us. I supposed we ought to keep on trying.