What science can do about death

Krishna: Science has already delayed death!

Life extension is the concept of extending the human lifespan, either modestly through improvements in medicine or dramatically by increasing the maximum lifespan beyond its generally-settled biological limit.

Science has extended human life expectancy through:

• Improved medicine: Treatments like chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy, blood transfusions, antibiotics, and surgery can prolong life. Treatments for infectious diseases can stop death at the entrance of your life.
• Personalized gene therapies: These therapies can significantly extend the expected lifespan for people with rare diseases.
• Vaccines: These treatments can add years to a person's life.
• Environmental, food, and medical improvements: These improvements have minimized mortality at earlier ages.
• Other factors science brought into the equation that can contribute to longevity include: healthy diet and nutrition, relevant physical activity, good living conditions, and access to healthcare.

Global life expectancy has increased from 30 years in 1870 to 71 years in 2021.

Future breakthroughs in tissue rejuvenation, stem cells, regenerative medicine, molecular repair, gene therapy, pharmaceuticals, and organ replacement (such as with artificial organs or xeno-transplantations) will eventually enable humans to have longer lifespans.

Your lifespan might have been written into your genes.

But a healthy lifestyle appeared to offset the effects of genes linked to a shorter lifespan by 62%. Making favorable lifestyle choices despite having genes linked to a shorter lifespan was linked to living 5.22 years longer than those who made unfavorable choices. Studies suggest that adopting and sticking to a combination of lifestyle changes may be one of the most important ways to defy these “bad” family genes (1).

Your mindset to have a long life will definitely inform your lifestyle to make it healthy.

The word "fate" has multiple meanings in science, including:

• Medical fate: The expected result of normal development, such as the prospective fate of embryonic cells
• Environmental fate: The process by which a solvent is influenced by its physicochemical properties in the environment
• Chemical fate: Where a chemical goes when it gets out into the environment and how it might be chemically transformed in the process

But according to mainstream science, "fate" as a predetermined, unchangeable course of events in peoples’ lives does not exist; most scientists think that the concept of fate contradicts the established laws of physics and the idea of cause and effect, where even seemingly small changes can have significant consequences, making the future unpredictable.

(Fate meaning: the development of events outside a person's control, regarded as predetermined by a supernatural power)

In physics, the concept of fate gets tangled up with this whole idea of determinism. Determinism is basically the notion that every event, including human actions, is determined by previous events and natural laws. So, in a way, you could argue that if everything's determined by cause and effect, then fate might be a thing, right? But hold up, it's not that simple! Quantum physics throws a curveball into the mix with its uncertainty principle, suggesting that at the subatomic level, things can be pretty unpredictable. In the end, whether you believe in fate or not might just come down to how much uncertainty you're comfortable with in the universe! (2)

So fate doesn’t determine our natural death. Genes decide up to a certain extent. Lifestyle to a large extent. And science to a greater extent.

But death is inevitable in the end atleast until the human mind can catch up with  universal science.

Footnotes:

1. Genetic predisposition, modifiable lifestyles, and their joint effe...
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goiLi3pl45k