The Problem Remains the Same
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Without going further into the details of birth and death in terms of modernized scientific plans, it can safely be said that the problem of birth and death remains in its original proportion. Nothing has been done to increase or decrease the problem.
The problem of old age and disease is also not solved. The more the inventions of modernized science are made, the more relative diseases increase proportionately.
We can again conclude that birth, death, old age, and disease are the sum total of all the problems of material existence and can never be solved by any plan made by human beings. If a human being wants to solve all the problems of material existence, he must abide by the advice of Godhead that only by full surrender unto Him can one be saved from the stringent conditions of the material laws of nature.