Anti-Aging, Amortality and Immortality: The Latest Keywords in Aesthetic Surgery

Aging is a fundamental aspect of life and often associated with illness, incapacitation, decrepitude, and death. Naturally, it is a human tendency to avoid it, or at least, postpone it. Research on anti-aging is taking place at various levels. This ranges from biochemistry, cell biology, and molecular biology which includes research on mitochondrial DNA and oxidative stress, and research on cellular and molecular replacement interventions, to animal studies, and human studies. Their aim is to change the rate of human aging in the days to come. The nutraceuticals industry with its super foods and vitamins, the plastic surgeons with their head to toe anti aging and body contouring surgeries almost everyone is lending a hand to stop aging. However, there are plenty of ethical issues with this research and it is only ethical if we can live longer both physically and mentally and not aim for amortality or immortality. Radically extending life or reversing aging will gradually decrease the number of working hands and increase the number of dependent individuals and perhaps the population. We will then have to evolve newer economic, cultural and political norms because there will be no fresh minds to solve newer problems.