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Originally Posted by Amadeus  DQueen, the two major reasons people live longer today is certainly not because of medicine for the most part. |
I absolutely disagree with this. Modern medicine has saved more lives than you know. I, for one, wouldn't be alive today. When I was 14 I had a severe bout of appendicitis that would have killed me without the surgery to remove it and clean up the mess in conjuction with the antibiotics to clear up the infection.
Also think about how many people you know that have had measles, mumps, rubella, typhoid fever, polio or a whole host of other diseases that are almost unheard of today and used to kill or maim many people.
That all being said, I think people can take treatments too far and will sometimes go to a doctor and take medicine for things that really don't need treatment, but that doesn't discount the fact that we are indeed living longer due to medical advances in conjuction with other things like better nutrition (although that's arguable today given our current obesity problems), better food safety, better hygiene and better safety overall.