Jay C
Sociology 2
18 March 2021
Why Do Our Bodies Age? | Response
Why do we age? Well, for one thing it’s good to note that this has been the part of life
that’s been the norm since the beginning of time. The cons to living forever would imply an
overly populated earth than what we already have. From what I gather there have been nearly
ninety-one hundred billion deaths throughout human existence so we could only imagine where
our world would be without the phase of death. It sounds like there might be a lot of pros when
we think about living forever, but we have to think about the scarcity of things all around us.
Given that our bodies are programmed to eventually deteriorate it’s easy to say that this is the
