Should we believe in — or even want — immortality?

The majority of these trials are going to fail. The majority of trials do. Everyone has a stake in this game, so people should be dispassionate. Every living person is capable of doing that.

He retired from University College London at the age of 65. The man had worked on cellular senescence. He told me that he's ready to leave after a long life.

The field that Benzer foresaw in his Fly Room in the last century is being taken seriously not only on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley and Riyadh, but also at the National Institute of Health. It is starting to look like a normal branch of research medicine.

The idea, of course, is to add good years to our lives without drawing out the number of bad years at the end.

The study of the clock may teach us how to slow down some of the fundamental decline we call aging, so that we don't end up with chronic diseases as we get older. According to the geroscience hypothesis, we can fight many chronic diseases at the same time.

Adding good years to our lives doesn't mean we'll have bad years at the end. The compression of morbidity is related to morbidity. The compression of morbidity is a hypothesis that no one knows if it can be accomplished. Most centenarians are capable of doing that. Many of them feel well at the ripe old age of 100, and they stay healthy for two or three decades longer than the rest of us. The bird is alive and well, the bird is dead.

Our kind will be mortal for a long time.

Andy Stark is a Canadian writer and academic. Andy thinks we are better off being dead. The terrible problem of boredom is explored in his book. What number of times would you like to ride the roller coaster? The sixth extinction is one of the problems I look at in Long for This World. What amount of that disaster would you like to see?

Andy Stark gave a talk about longevity a few years back. The person in the audience was a woman. Aubrey challenged Andy when he finished. You would take that if I offered you an extra 30 healthy years. You would take the next 30 years, and the next 30 after that. So on, and so on?