“All good is hard. All
evil is easy. Dying, (suicide) losing, cheating, and mediocrity are easy. Stay
away from ease.”
– Scott Alexander
One major way to measure the degree of
development in any society is the value she placed on human life. Even animals
operate with the instinct that human life is sacred. This is the reason they
initially exhibit fear and flight when they encounter human beings.
Consequently, every progressive human society
focuses on the double task of preserving and improving the lives of mortals. Some
European and even Asian nations have perfected in this crucial task to a high
degree that the elderly cohort (65 and above) form a significant part of their
population. In other words, the life expectancy of such nations is high. For
instance, the UN 2015 world life expectancy of Nigerian is 52.29 years, UK is 80.45, and Japan
