Modern lifestyles and medical advances have made it extremely possible to reach eighty years of age. Many of the illnesses that plagued our predecessors, such as smallpox and tuberculosis, are no longer a factor of most people’s lives and are not killers to modern society. Likewise, women rarely die during childbirth now as we have the medical science behind us to ensure a woman’s utmost safety. But with so many ways around previous killers, why is it we die at all?
The body rebuilds itself at least every seven years, with many organs and cells replacing themselves with cell turnover. The stomach, science tells us, replaces itself every four months. With the large quantity of acid contained in it, if it didn’t rebuild itself it would destroy from the inside out. But this begs the question of our mortality, as surely cell turnover would simply mean that we could live forever through rebuilding our bodies?
The downside to this plan is that cells retain a memory of the previous cell, so pain and injury is remembered. The new cell simply takes on the identity of the prior cell, which means if it is close to destruction, then the new cell will maintain this path. Death is an inevitable part of life, and we prepare ourselves for a limited amount of time on this planet.
It is thought that our subconscious mind commands the body, so if we are under the illusion that we are going to die at a certain stage in our life, the body acts on this by sending messages to the organs to ascertain it’s health. Therefore, if we believe we should be ageing, the organs follow suit. If you wanted to live forever, you would need to train your subconscious to believe in the possibility of living eternally. This would result in the body never ageing, enjoying perfect health throughout your life. But after centuries of believing the opposite, how would one evolve against this ingrained train of thought? And would we really want that? Perhaps the body has designed itself to think this way for a reason – the reason being that life is meant to be limited and kept as a precious and temporary thing.
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