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What kinds of crazes, fads, diets, pop-culture phenomena, books, or movies can you think of that have promoted a version of a "quest for immortality" that would attempt to stem the advance of old age, disease, and, ultimately, death?

Social Media and Reality Television have put a huge emphasizes on celebrities such as the Kardashians. The Kardashians are known for spending huge amounts of money on plastic surgery and personal upkeep. Due to the fact that the Kardashians are a household name around the world many people feel pressured to keep up with them and remain young looking. For example Kris Jenner is 60 years old and does not have a single wrinkle on her face. Always been photographed has led her to want to remain young forever. Kris Jenner does not just get plastic surgery to remain young she is also shown many times on the show partying like she is still 21. This shows her fear of growing old.
Another example of this the fad of taking pills to make your nails and hair longer. Long healthy hair …show more content…

In a very literal sense our bodies are not meant to live that long. After about 110 years everyone's body would begin to deteriorate and that is just not a good way to live. For example in the show Dexter this women was so old and in so much pain she did not want to be alive anymore, so she asked him to kill her. I feel if there was no way anyone could die it would cause more pain than pleasure. Another problem is overpopulation. The world would quickly reach its capacity and then what do we do? The only option would be to send people to live at sea or in space. The last problem that I see is a money shortage. As a business major the first thing that I thought about was jobs and social security. The unemployment rate would sky rocket also when people retired there would be no money for them because of the fact that the world is so overpopulated. This would eventually lead to a huge increase in poverty and

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