Forever Young: The new scientific search for immortality

I’d do anything to live forever. Well, almost anything:

Goat testicle transplants. Elixirs of jade. Inhaling the breath of virgins. Injecting crushed dog gonads. Drinking radioactive waters. These are just a few of the ways people have sought to lengthen their lives and renew their vitality.

I never really bought into the idea that immortality was waiting in children, or art, or good deeds, or dragging camels through the eyes of needles. For me, immortality was going to be found in a lab coat and a test tube.

I know I put an unreasonable amount of faith in the power of science to solve my problems. But, I don’t have much faith in anything else, and everybody has to believe in something.

So, while it may be little more than science fiction-based optimism, I always figured that if i could just make it to 50, then I could live forever. This century is going to do for bio-science what the last did for physics. There are magics untold waiting for us. I only hope I don’t die too soon to take advantage of them.