Peter Fairley The Problem Of Prolonging Life

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With the continually growing of technology in all life aspects, it is also rapidly growing in the medical field, and with this development people’s lives are changing for the better. Advanced Health care technologies such as medical devices, treatments, surgeries, and organ’s transportation now have a great ability in prolonging and saving lives. The medical technology also helps in earlier diagnosing of some diseases such as cancer which help in faster and easier therapy. Doctors and scientists are working in developing these medical technological as those methods are giving all people hope, especially chronically ill people. The artificial organs technology had saved and still saving many lives. Peter Fairley, an energy and environment journalist based in Paris and British Columbia discusses in his article “Saving lives with living machines,” the great impact of the bioartificial organs on prolonging life. Fairley explains how those artificial …show more content…
Katy Butler, a science writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Science Writing, and The New York Times Magazine, writes in her article “The Problem of Prolonging Life,” about her struggling story with 80years-sick father. Katy’s father needed a pacemaker to correct his slow heartbeat, which Katy mentions later “should never installed at all.” Katy was suffering of seeing “the man …[she] loved more than Elzahaby 4 any other was going blind and falling into dementia.” Even though the pacemaker made