The rules of nature

Is it true that our life has become so much better than before, so we, the self-acclaimed rulers on earth, become so greedy that we want to live forever? I watched the movie “Island” yesterday, it was kind of sci-fi/action movie, in which an institute created human clones for rich people as their “insurance policy”, so when the rich people get sick and need to have a transplant of heart, liver or any organs, they would ask the institute to deliver their product to them and so the riches can live longer, if not forever. And these human clones, are not considered as humans, but rather as products, so they could be killed anytime when the rich people need to have a new organ. Predictably, in the movie this inhuman institute was overturned and thousands of their products were saved and get to live real human life rather than veggie life.

To me, the movie presented a rather interesting question, where should we draw the line between the right to save an existing life and use another life to save a life. I definitely think stem cell research is something we should encourage and continue and use it as a tool to save more lives. But of course there is always a danger that some people might abuse the biotechnology breakthrough and use it against basic human rights.

And there is a deeper question out there - why we want to live forever? It is very easy to understand that nobody wants to die, but maybe we should follow the rules of nature, which is live and die, we come from the nature and we come back to the nature. I would rather think we should try to enrich life experience and enhance the quality of life both for us as well as for the generations after us, instead of trying to live as long as we want. Manipulation of natural process of live and death is probably not a desirable thing, and most likely will be punished by the rules of the nature. We have been fighting very hard trying to change the nature, but maybe sometimes we should let it run in its own course.