Live to live

While the genocide in Gaza continues unstoppable despite citizen protests and useless international and monarchical policies; while Trump spits his venom at the UN and this organization grows increasingly weaker, despite having demonstrated its ineffectiveness for decades; while the anti-immigration rhetoric continues to convince and fails to convince any possibility of preventing people from having to move illegally around the world; while corruption weakens democracies and authoritarian regimes can subjugate their nations without problems; while nature continues to be an infinite good that can be destroyed; while everyone continues to ignore the hell in which Afghan women live; while drones and AI fly over our heads to make them explode; while beauty and empathy barely have space in the news of the day; while problems pile up on our tables and solutions disappear, science studies how to live longer.

We have just learned that the oldest woman in the world, the Catalan Maria Branyas, who died at the age of 117, was 23 years younger than his chronological biological age and, thanks to his genetics and habits, was able to live so many years and in good condition. Based on a study genetic A thorough analysis can lead to very important conclusions for understanding the aging of the body, but while the possibility of extending human life is being investigated, our reality, for example, is a lack of housing for young people and an increase in nursing homes for the elderly; contradictions so solid that they make us think again that we will start putting the cart before the horse. But we want to live longer, but how? Are we capable of creating a Western society that incorporates the ages in a more organic way and provides the necessary care for both children and the elderly without it all being a burden? Do we want to live all ages to the fullest, or do we simply want to breathe longer? Without detracting from scientific work, I take paracetamol, but it is interesting to reflect in depth on how socioeconomic, climatic, and personality factors influence this, and why we have this desire to live longer, even though the end remains certain.

A few days ago they were Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping Those who spoke of the possibility of lifespans being considerably longer. A possibility that, if all human beings were to achieve this—something highly unlikely—would mean that it would prolong the lives of dictators, rapists, psychopaths, narcissists, or predators as much as it would those of honest, empathetic, altruistic, or virtuous people. Because I don't know of any scientific study—which doesn't mean it doesn't exist—that says that most people who grow old improve their behavior or that, if they lived longer, they would be more altruistic, compassionate, and caring. What I do believe is clear to us is that with more years of celebrating birthdays, bakeries are a business with a future, that if there's a lot of talk about the three yogurts a day that Maria Branyas ate, yogurt consumption will surely increase, and that more years won't prevent ridiculous adjectives like "superavia" from being read or the addition of a Guinness record, because lifespans are still counted according to our ranking. That human beings can live longer seems quite likely, but whether they will stop competing with themselves to continue feeding like a vampire is what we have yet to see.