Problemer med ekstrem lang levetid

"Discuss the problems of extreme longevity”"Beware a Senior Society" and "2BR02B"

How would it be to live for a longer time? What if ageing got cured? Would it be realistic to cure ageing, or at least make it possible to live longer? Immortality is a typical topic in science fiction and fantasy, but what would it actually be like?What would you need to do and think about if you were immortal?How would society need to change if we were all immortal?Would we think different, act different, live different, and would the human society change?We have in the last weeks been reading these two stories that discuss life extension. “Beware a senior society” gives us a very negative sight at prolonging life. The human body will be strong enough to survive for a longer time, but our brains, and by that I mean our memory, will degrade and in the end, it will vanish. Getting older would result a massive world population increase, which will affect that we in a near future, will have an overpopulated world, which cannot provide food and space enough for everyone.Page 224 lines 33 says: “A total of 6 billion people already tests the Earth’s carrying