Can a human live forever? Yes, with the right technology. We are near that technology with this new 3D printed heart membrane. The membrane is meant to keep beating perfectly forever. It also helps prevent heart attacks, malfunctions, and other heart mishaps that leads to death.
It is only made to support a rabbit’s heart, but within the next ten to fifteen years, it will be available for humans.
This relates to my forensics class. We learned about the heart after death and what could cause death.
Honestly, I think that this would be good for someone who actually needs it. I think that a lot of people want it because they think that it will make them live forever, but it won’t. If the heart keep beating, we would just wither away, literally. Our bones would break down.
This would come out by the time I would need it. I could get one. It’s not going to be that expensive, but It will be rare.
What is the central idea of the passage and how is it developed and refined throughout the selection? Use evidence from the selection to support your answer.
The idea of the passage is to inform you about the membrane. He uses a lot of facts and quotes about the membrane such as,” But this artificial pericardium is instrumented with high quality, man-made devices that can sense and interact with the heart in different ways that are relevant to clinical cardiology”(Diaz).
He also uses a picture of each step of the heart membrane being made and applied to the heart.
Citations
Diaz, Jesus. "Revolutionary Membrane Can Keep Your Heart Beating Perfectly Forever."Sploid. Gizmodo, 02 Mar. 2014. Web. 03 Mar. 2014. http://sploid.gizmodo.com/revolutionary-membrane-can-keep-your-heart-beating-perf-1534678803.
This is a really good idea on building a heart that can "make us live forever". I agree with you that our bones would start breaking down and end up dieing that way. Great job with the set up of the blog and putting your opinion in there.
ReplyDeleteThis is actually a cool idea. A heart that never stops. I do not believe that it would make you live forever because your brain needs to be working for you to still be alive. There is no citation for the picture and when you referred to the article in the last paragraph, you referred to the author as "he" which is not specific. If someone had not read the same article and saw that you put "he", they would not know who you mean. I look forward to reading your next post!
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