It sails all along the darkness. The sea is a bit calm, and silent. Yet, all the 4 dimensions are gloomy, confusing, and blurred. The 46 pirates ship knows where and when to attack. Despite all troubles it faces; gathering, building, surfing, orienting, and directing, it eventually reaches its destination. The coast is buried beneath the waves. The pirates start invading all storage yards, and use it to multiply. And by a specific well designed mechanism, they establish one of the greatest states in whole world: human being.
Assuming that humans are the smartest creature is not correct. The pirate ship/zygote is managing its invading project better than Jack Sparrow; I mean captain Jack, or any other great pirate or invader. Later on, the organs inside of us act spontaneously, and without the brain interruption. They work better than the brain, itself, or any other organism. For example, heart has its own regulator, or head which works to maintain optimal level of effort. Also in case of starving, liver starts to make glucose from primitive sources. The whole glucose is delivered to the stream of blood, which passes all over the body. Eventually, it is only consumed by the brain, as it needs it the most. The liver itself, the glucose factory, doesn’t use any piece of sugar it makes. This’s a masterpiece, and no wonder many humans were worshiped. Who is the great master behind this design?
In medicine for many diseases, there’s no definitive cure. All we can provide is a treatment, a compensating one. High blood pressure, for example, is only treated with medications for life. There’s no such anti-hypertensive pill which stops it and reverse all the effects. However, the same medications we use currently may cause new troubles; dry cough, dizziness, and erectile dysfunction, which mean no intercourses. “Once the paper is scrambled up, it can’t be perfect again.” We have one thing of everything, except for the liver. In the sense we can’t make a new muscle if any muscle in the body is torn. Even the normal function mechanism is one of its kind, once it’s disturbed it goes crazy and can’t be returned to its initial state. So, we’re challenged on the level of a tissue as well as the level of whole regulatory process which is contributed by many tissues and elements.
Technology for now can’t fix and restore our health. The idea is; we’re still in the first step in our body understanding milestone. I’m not pessimistic but who knows what troubles, hybrid, genetic mutations, and defects we may face in future. That’s due to diseases we suffer of, currently, without our knowledge, or due to new illnesses we will face. I know many new approaches are on the nuclear and chromosomes level. Still, can we handle millions of information inside this small cluster of protein? Manipulating such tiny things may lead to fatal mistakes, such as mutations. Repeated mutations for a cell usually lead to cancer. Viruses could be the key, those small, smart, and mean particles, and barely alive organism. They depend on the invaded cell tools to live and multiply. What a lovely and easy life they live.
Medicine whole idea is pursuing after eternity. This is also whole humanity concern; good life quality and longer life span is the aim, just like elves. However, we, doctors, can’t give life, and as a result we can’t take it. Those who give, only those shall take. You give work, and you take reward; a fancy car or Gucci shoes for example. You give life, you, and only you shall take it. It’s obvious the pirate ship is strong enough to force its right to live. And some people drive this force with the power of a million Saudi Riyal in the wedding ceremony. This is the argument in the mercy killing, I don’t mean marriage, abortion, and vegetated people termination.
This is a medical case: 37 old Saudi lady. We detect that she is pregnant with a mutated fetus, or even sickle cell one. Shall we terminate the pregnancy and safe her the effort, time, money, and suffering? To tell the truth, around 50% of first 12 weeks spontaneous abortions are due to chromosomal defect, like missing chromosome or extra one. So, nature is playing its rule, and what a business we have to play as nature? This is another case of an end stage cancer patient. We provide the patient some morphine to ease his pain. It takes only a little bit more dose of morphine to take this patient to his final rest. Who agrees to rest this man? Please, don’t forget that chemotherapy, he received, did participate in his current condition.
Earth planet and life were going fine, until human decided to interrupt the peace. Yet, the way it was moving contributed to the death of a lot of people. Nowadays, people minimized that amount, increasing life sum. As a result, do they have the right to correct death number according to what they think?
all the credit for the last picture (life is an option you can live with) goes to Danny Hammontree, you find him in this link.
Probably it is an issue of goals. Our goal as a human is more like easing the pain and increase OUR life span regardless of the natural cycle of life. Natural selection, only the fittest survive, sounds to cruel to us, for now, because we produce more than we consume. Therefore, we can afford saving the weak, the naturally unimportant, and the unproductive.
Wait until we lose our ability of overproducing and nature will take its course… it is obvious to me that we live too much for nature ( ~74 years ) because of modern technology in medicine, food processing, and so forth, however it is an Oil based technology which means, in theory, it can’t last forever.
I liked this article, very nice.. especially the beginning :)