The Coming Death Shortage. Charles C. Mann.
by Mann, Charles C; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 52Family. Publisher: Atlantic Monthly, 2005ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Biotechnology | Life expectancy | Longevity | Medical care -- Cost ofDDC classification: 050 Summary: "From religion to real estate, from pensions to parent-child dynamics, almost every aspect of society is based on the orderly succession of generations. Every quarter century or so children take over from their parents--a transition as fundamental to human existence as the rotation of the planet about its axis. In tomorrow's world, if the optimists are correct, grandparents will have living grandparents; children born decades from now will ignore advice from people who watched the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. Intergenerational warfare...will be but one consequence. Trying to envision such a world, sober social scientists find themselves discussing pregnant seventy-year-olds, offshore organ farms, protracted adolescence, and lifestyles policed by insurance companies. Indeed, if the biologists are right, the coming army of centenarians will be marching into a future so unutterably different that they may well feel nostalgia for the long-ago days of three score and ten." (ATLANTIC MONTHLY) The author considers the problems society will face if life expectancy is significantly increased.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: The Coming Death Shortage, May 2005; pp. 92+.
"From religion to real estate, from pensions to parent-child dynamics, almost every aspect of society is based on the orderly succession of generations. Every quarter century or so children take over from their parents--a transition as fundamental to human existence as the rotation of the planet about its axis. In tomorrow's world, if the optimists are correct, grandparents will have living grandparents; children born decades from now will ignore advice from people who watched the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. Intergenerational warfare...will be but one consequence. Trying to envision such a world, sober social scientists find themselves discussing pregnant seventy-year-olds, offshore organ farms, protracted adolescence, and lifestyles policed by insurance companies. Indeed, if the biologists are right, the coming army of centenarians will be marching into a future so unutterably different that they may well feel nostalgia for the long-ago days of three score and ten." (ATLANTIC MONTHLY) The author considers the problems society will face if life expectancy is significantly increased.
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