Medical technology can increase the humans life expectancy. Is it blessing or curse?

The average life expectancy has increased tremendously during the past five decades in almost all countries. Such advance in the number of years a human is expected to live has been attributed to advancements in medical science along with affordability of health care. I believe this has both positive and negative impacts on individuals as well as the society.

With an increase in life expectancy, more and more people are available to make economic contributions even at an advanced age of 65. Consequently, a wealth of years of experience is better utilized in the development of an organization, a society, and a country. Moreover, greater life expectancy is beneficial for a family as well as the society. Not only do children benefit immensely from love and care of grandparents but also entire family and society benefit from their advice.

Despite numerous benefits, increased age brings several disadvantages. Since aged people are more likely to suffer from diseases, the medical bills of a country are much higher for these people. With elderly constituting more than 15 percent of the population in most developed countries and falling ill more frequently than other members of society, the monetary burden of their medical care is enormously taxing. Consequently, the fiscal resources that could have been better utilized for building schools, colleges, airports, roads, etc. for next generation are spent in taking care of the aged.

Moreover, higher longevity translates to a lesser number of young people entering the workforce. Thus, while people above 60 years of age keep working with old technology, youngsters who are adept with the latest technology do not get the opportunity to work. This severely hampers the productivity and total output measured as Gross Domestic Product, of an economy. In addition, the youngsters, who face high unemployment and little possibility of a well-paid job, are expected to bear the heavy burden of the pensioners. With average life expectancy exceeding more than 85 years is some developed countries, many people spend as many years in retirement as they invested in their jobs. I strongly believe that even the richest of societies are not ready to bear this economic burden.

In conclusion, though increased life expectancy has immensely benefited us both economically and socially, it has several disadvantages. However, a balance can be established by lowering the retirement age while offering older generation honorary jobs that aim at guiding the youth to understand business and government systems.

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Average: 7.7 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, however, if, moreover, so, thus, well, while, in addition, in conclusion, as well as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 10.5418719212 142% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 6.10837438424 33% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 8.36945812808 131% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 5.94088669951 84% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 20.9802955665 71% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 31.9359605911 175% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 5.75862068966 243% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2172.0 1207.87684729 180% => OK
No of words: 405.0 242.827586207 167% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36296296296 5.00649968141 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48604634366 3.92707691288 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98830112374 2.71678728327 110% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 139.433497537 164% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.565432098765 0.580463131201 97% => OK
syllable_count: 711.0 379.143842365 188% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.57093596059 115% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.6157635468 87% => OK
Article: 8.0 1.56157635468 512% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 1.71428571429 175% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 3.65517241379 219% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 12.6551724138 158% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.5024630542 98% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.4036483082 50.4703680194 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.6 104.977214359 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.25 20.9669160288 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.45 7.25397266985 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.12807881773 121% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 6.9802955665 186% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 2.75862068966 217% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 2.91625615764 34% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.137790148041 0.242375264174 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0361306043845 0.0925447433944 39% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0403096404548 0.071462118173 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0785490483439 0.151781067708 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0311174181256 0.0609392437508 51% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 12.6369458128 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.26 53.1260098522 64% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.54236453202 171% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.5 10.9458128079 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 11.5310837438 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.32886699507 109% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 55.0591133005 207% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 9.94827586207 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.3980295567 96% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.5123152709 133% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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