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Leeds University is spending £50 million over the next five years looking at solutions to the problem of ageing.
They reckon that half of the babies being born in the UK will reach the age of 100 thanks to higher living standards, and so they believe that in the future most of the body parts that falter with ageing can be upgraded in various ways.
I’m not one of those who hail this development for it raises a number of issues, not the least of which is: ‘Who is going to pay for upgrading failing body parts?’. I just don’t see the NHS lashing out on such work and, if this is the case, then only the wealthy will benefit from something that might equally benefit the poor.
Consider also the scenario of a wealthy person of 100 who has upgraded his or her body parts to that of a 50 year-old. The thought that you might have thousands of people with Alzheimers rushing around asking people where they’ve come from or where they supposed to be going to is just too disturbing for words!
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Leeds University is spending £50 million over the next five years looking at solutions to the problem of ageing.
They reckon that half of the babies being born in the UK will reach the age of 100 thanks to higher living standards, and so they believe that in the future most of the body parts that falter with ageing can be upgraded in various ways.
I’m not one of those who hail this development for it raises a number of issues, not the least of which is: ‘Who is going to pay for upgrading failing body parts?’. I just don’t see the NHS lashing out on such work and, if this is the case, then only the wealthy will benefit from something that might equally benefit the poor.
Consider also the scenario of a wealthy person of 100 who has upgraded his or her body parts to that of a 50 year-old. The thought that you might have thousands of people with Alzheimers rushing around asking people where they’ve come from or where they supposed to be going to is just too disturbing for words!
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