Medical Decision and Human Lifespan

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Imagine you have been waiting for five years on the organ recipient waiting list. Your kidney is failing and you are in dire need of a new one. As you continue to wait on the list, you get more and more sick. Eventually, you lose your fight because no kidneys became available that would fit your body and antibodies. This paper will discuss a new technology that could potentially eliminate this problem altogether and presents the ethical issues that accompany its use.

This paper will address the issue of human overpopulation when coupled with the new and emerging longevity medical technologies, and the hypothetical results of how these technologies will affect the issue.

“Death with dignity” is such a catch-phrase right now in the media. But for those of us who suffer in our dark thoughts everyday, we are...