It has long been questioned whether the longer lifespan granted by advanced technology and the medical care system that has accompanied The industrial revolution is a triumph of humanity or rather, a tragedy. A number of people have suggested that a longer lifespan has always been humanity's wildest dream and is now being realized to some extent thanks to our advanced science and technology. Others have argued that the increasing number of elderly people due to longer lifespans has proven to be a huge burden on society as well as themselves. However, as far as I am concerned, the key to the debate is whether this extended lifespan should be considered a triumph or a tragedy lies not in the lifespan itself, but rather in its quality. Since the ancient times of human civilization, humanity has always prayed for the granting of a longer lifespan. Even the wisest emperors would spend enormous amounts of time and resources trying to decipher the secret of immortality. In the famous Greek myth, when the goddess Eos asked Zeus to grant the great warrior Tithonus, her mortal lover, the gift of immortality, she forgot to ask for health and sent to see her once proud, powerful and healthy lover. health, getting older and sicker. His body and mind were collapsing but he could never die. Like Eos, when humanity tries its best to seek a longer lifespan, there is comparatively less emphasis on its quality. In East Asian countries where traditional agricultural civilizations are collapsing with family-based elder care, millions of disabled and poor elderly people suffer in cheap and miserable nursing homes, abused from time to time. in time by poorly paid and trained care workers; In the more developed Western world, the elderly dying... middle of paper ......e, those people in their 60s and even 70s, could share and contribute either for payment or as volunteers. By doing so, their future lives would be much more meaningful and productive. Is aging a triumph or a tragedy for the future? The choice remains in the hands of each individual as well as our society as a whole. If we actually devoted more resources and focused on improving the quality of life of older people instead of just extending their life expectancy, everyone's future life would be beautiful and promising. Everyone will get old eventually. I don't want when that day comes to us that we have to worry about things like suffering and dignity. I hope that our society, while becoming more mature and putting more effort into the quality of life in the latter days, will be a favorable place for us to grow old in the near future..