Living longer is a trend, but it is not an inevitable outcome of human beings if people have not continuously made effort to it. When things happen, they are definitely caused by some events occurred in the past, and these things will also result in new ones in the future. Therefore, it is not only we connect an independent event with another, which is related to the former, that we can tell the whole picture of it, and the result of this process is so-called history. There is no exception that living longer, which is a common phenomenon in many countries, has it cause and effect. In view of this, there are two people's essay in this article aimed at analyzing the causes of living longer.
歐祐妘
Nowadays, the average age of people around
the world has become longer than before. In the past, once people were infected
by some diseases, the fatality rate was very high and people almost couldn’t
resist the attack of virus. Therefore, it was nearly impossible for people to
live over 70 years old. But now with the development of knowledge, we can live
longer with many modern ways. There are three main reasons that cause us to
live longer than before, including nutritious foods, medical treatment, and the
development of technology.
First of all, advanced agricultural skills
can provide enough nutrition to keep us healthy. Owing to the revolution of
agriculture, farmers can eliminate the use of pesticides or chemical
fertilizers, and we can easily buy many nutritious foods from stores. For
example, organic foods stores always attract many housekeepers. With organic
foods, we can eat healthier than before and absorb more nutrition to make us live
longer. Although the prices will be higher than general foods, the quality of
foods will be guaranteed. Besides, people who eat organic foods can avoid
pesticides or chemical fertilizers.
Second, the improvement of medical treatment
is playing an important role in people’s living longer. In the past, diseases
have been a potential killer to reduce people’s lifespan. In our age, we don’t
have to worry about the explosion of war or the spread of virus. With the
National Health Insurance in Taiwan, we can get proper treatment and we don’t
have to pay enormous medical expenses.
The most important of all, with the
development of technology, we can create many types of equipment to take care
of us. Before the advanced technology appeared, every time people got chronic
diseases, their family members had to look after them all the days and the
patient might still have the possibility to die. But with the new technology,
we can monitor the condition immediately and make a treatment right away, which
can reduce the mortality risk.
Living
longer is a trend in our generation, and we can imagine the average ages will continuously
increase in the future. Those causes make us live longer than before; however,
we still have to make our effort and try our best to maintain the health to
live longer. In this way, maybe it will be possible for us to live over 100
years old.
賴仕偉
Taiwan has been an aged society on April
tenth, 2018, which means there are more than 14% of people in Taiwan who are
above 65. Apart from the low birthrate, people nowadays tend to live much
longer than before that leads Taiwan to be an aged society. However, living
longer is not a specific phenomenon in Taiwan but a common one around the
world. Therefore, there may be some universal reasons why people are prone to
living longer today. As far as I am concerned, we can categorize these reasons
roughly into three parts: the development of sanitation and medical science,
the spread of information and knowledge, and the atmosphere of society.
With the improvement of sanitation and
medical science, many diseases are eradicated, and even the incurable ones can
be healed. For example, some facilities can separate pollutant from the public:
since the finish of the sewerage system in London in the 19th century,
the civilians were prevented from the extremely stench and the cholera caused
by the dirty water. Also, the invention of new medicine and vaccines make some
terminal illness, such as smallpox and tuberculosis, in the past become curable
now. Although this is the most basic way that can extend people’s lives, it is
also the most passive one since those achievements are only done by a minority
of people.
Therefore, it is the spread of information
and knowledge that makes the concepts of sanitation and medical science
well-known. When Taiwan was under the colonization of Japan, the Taiwanese
started to have the realization of keeping healthy and clean, and even
eradicated the malaria from Taiwan forever. Today, some of us still receive
information and knowledge such as “How to live a longer life” from the Internet,
which is constantly enlightened. The spread of information and knowledge makes
people from many countries know the information about their health and lives,
and then changes their habit in order to live longer.
Last but not least, the atmosphere of society
can also influence the life expectancy. Following the end of the World War II,
everything seemed to come in peace: the economy revived, and people then didn’t
have to live in fear and prepare to flee anytime. Therefore, in contrast to
that chaotic situation during the war, people in the post-war period gradually
dare to think about their future and are more willing to make effort to live. I
suppose it is a person’s desire to live that makes them more long-lived than
before.
Living
longer may result from several causes, and sometimes these causes can also have
an influence on each other. Those who live in a peaceful world do not have to
worry about their livelihood, and some of them may have the ability to make
their lives better through the medical science; and the development of
information can spread the knowledge of medical science and enlighten their
younger generations to invent more things which are beneficial to human beings.
The cycle leads the whole world to a better one and those who benefit from it
can live a longer life.
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