Many people believe that longer human life span causes many problems such as a financial problem that government subsides would be depleted by old people and wasting of manpower for take care of old people. However, I disagree with the statement for the several following reasons.
First of all, longer human life span makes people more living life to the full and they can get a more time to relax. In other words, people would work hard and study hard during young age for their later years. For spend their later years in peace, people effort both in work hard and stay healthy. For instance, my father strive to make a money a lot for pay the old-age pension and save money for their later years. As a result, this social phenomenon is more productive, rather than causes many problems.
Secondly, longer human life span brings about creating jobs. Growing old people would need to more welfare system and welfare facilities, a lot social worker. Thus, the governments would hire people for stay welfare policies well. In addition, they need more health care system and doctors, hospitals for their unstable health. These are both benefits in develop economies and old people. In fact, when geriatric hospital was built in our town, our local economy was being revived by a large amount of job creation.
Finally, as mentions above, our society is live together and help each other. And also this is good news that human life span is getting longer. It makes people more cheerful and people have much time to make a plan for their long later years. Thus, I firmly believe that people has long life span has positive effects to be build healthy society. |