Is it biologically acceptable to stop the ageing process?

People cannot delay the rhythm of ageing and death, because it seems that there are important biological restrictions, according to a new international scientific essay.  Humans will never be immortal, despite the progress of science and technology. The maximum of life expectancy has been increased since the middle of 19th century, on a trimester period.  This conclusion has led some people to the belief that humans will manage to defeat the ageing process and even death, over time. Many scientists all over the world- with the support of governments, companies and investors- try to accomplish the dream of the reversion of ageing process, using the means of genetic, artificial intelligence and other methods. Nowadays, the relevant “industry” spends about 110 billion dollars per year, an amount that is about to be upgraded at 610 billion dollars until 2025.

However, a new international survey indicates that this dream will never come true. The researchers of 14 countries that made the publication on the “Nature Communications” magazine, examined the case of “the stable rhythm of ageing”, according to which, species are aging at a relatively constant rate. The scientists compared the births and deaths of humans and other primates and found out that there is a general norm of ageing and death, which is common through all species.
“Our findings support the theory that the increase of the life expectancy occurs from the fact that less people die at a young age, not because the death rhythm have slowed down”, states Jose Manuel Aburto, of the Leverhulme Demographic Science Center, of the Oxford University.
“This means that there are rather biological, than environmental factors, that affect and control the longevity”, he adds.

If statistics are confirmed, people live longer as their health and life conditions improve, thus the whole humanity tends to longevity. Despite the above, an abrupt increase of deaths is noted among all species, because of the natural ageing that comes over the years. The continuous scientific research conflicts about how many years can human live- with the help of science and technology- divide the scientific community for decades.

A new research analyzed the mortality data among a wide range of species, and compared them. The results are pretty much the same: there is a high risk of death at the early infant stage of life, which decreases fast during childhood and puberty, stays in stable low levels at the early adulthood and starts increasing as people age.

“Our findings confirm that, among historical people, the life expectancy was low because people died young. Nevertheless, while the medical, social and environmental conditions increased, the life expectancy was increased too. More and more humans live longer today. On the other hand, death at an elder age is a fact that remains the same. Our study shows that the evolutionary biology determines everything and, so far, the medical practices cannot defeat these biological restrictions”, underlined Aburto.