How Rejuvenation Benefits Children and Families

Rejuvenation biotechnology promises several benefits for individuals, but this technology, if thorough and widely adopted, would benefit larger groups of people, including your friends and family. If you are rejuvenated, that’s good for you, but a society with rejuvenation would mean several things for your loved ones as well.

Two burdens relieved with a single shot

The ill health of old age is a formidable sword of Damocles looming over us all, and when it falls down, it typically does not hit just us; the elderly are certainly the primary victims, but their family are collateral casualties. When people lose their health and independence to aging, their families have to go through the pain of seeing their loved ones becoming more and more fragile, sick, dependent, perhaps even demented.

Making things worse, these sick and dependent people need looking after. Thus, the family of an elderly person often needs to step in themselves to take care of their relative; if this is not possible, a nursing home is likely going to be the only option left.

Personally taking care of a sick elder is no joke. It requires patience, effort, and most of all, time. It’s a real challenge, especially so for people who have young kids of their own to look after. It is also very taxing emotionally.

The nursing home option may partly solve the problem, because there, somebody else does the caring for you, but telling your elders that you can’t take care of them any more isn’t the best feeling in the world, for you or for them. This can be a rather costly solution, and as much as every last penny spent to take care of a loved one is well spent, a typical family only has so many pennies, and just because they need them for grandpa, it doesn’t mean they can conjure money out of thin air.

As things stand, when we’re going to be old, our loved ones will be faced with the issues above; however, if a decent rejuvenation platform was in place by then, none of these issues would materialize, because we’d be healthy and independent in spite of our age. We would never be a burden on our loved ones, and the time we’d spend together would be quality time for us and for them.

Be there for those who care about you

The odds are good that, if an age-related disease were to claim your life tomorrow, there would be more than one person grieving for your loss. Your friends, and family would probably rather have you alive and well than inside a coffin.

Thanks to rejuvenation, your spouse, your children, your grandchildren, and your friends may benefit from your presence, life experience, and persona for a much longer time. This would be a benefit for you as well, because you could live through your 80s, 90s, and who knows how much longer, without having to bury a dear friend a few times a year.

Without rejuvenation, today’s children will eventually die of aging

Your children, old or young, will always be your children; you spend a good chunk of your life protecting them and keeping them away from unnecessary suffering. Once they’re grown-ups, this is something they can do pretty much on their own, but they won’t be able to protect themselves from aging; nobody can do that. However, future children, future people, may never have to worry about their or anyone else’s aging, if we only put enough effort into rejuvenation research and advocacy today.

Even if the adults of today aren’t guaranteed to escape the grip of aging, today’s children stand a much better chance. This is something we should all remember when we look at kids around us, particularly our own.