Most people want to live a long and healthy life. I want to redefine what that means. In the Bible, Methusalah lived to the age of 969. I see no reason why I shouldn’t have the same amount of time to figure things out here on Earth.
I’m not alone. I read an interesting article recently entitled The Man Who Wants to Live Forever. Forever I’m not sure about, but 1,000 years is a very reasonable amount of time to be here. At least, that is how I feel about it.
De Grey argues that society is caught in a “pro-ageing trance” which leads most of us to defend “the indefinite perpetuation of what it is in fact humanity’s primary duty to eliminate as soon as possible”. His forthright views, and the endearing zeal with which he expresses them, have attracted increasing amounts of attention, not only in scientific journals but also in the mainstream media. In the past year, he has been interviewed by several British broadsheet newspapers, and he recently featured in a 60 Minutes special on longevity on the US network CBS. In a profile of de Grey for the magazine Technology Review, Sherwin Nuland, clinical professor of surgery at the Yale School of Medicine, concluded that “his stature has become such that he is a factor to be dealt with in any serious discussion of the topic.”
Go read for yourself. Technology marches on, whether we want it to or not.