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The possible advantages of prolonging life

Submitted by Serendip Visitor on Sun, 11/22/2009 - 7:53pm.

What about the benefits of conserving or prolonging life? This may not mean forever, but maybe an extra 20-30 years or so. What about the social, scientific, educational contributions that humans could make if they were to live a lot longer? It's true that the cycle of life must continue or the Earth would become overpopulated thus quickening the depletion of its resources. Yet, no one has ever considered the role of human adaption in this hypothesis. Human have adapted to difficult environmental circumstances before so what's to say that this perseverance combined with further scientific achievements that humans will not be able to adapt tot his worst case scenario?

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