A Nobel Prize–winning biologist explores the science and charlatans of life-extension.
In one way or another, the superrich have always been trying to extend their lives. Ancient Egyptians crammed their tombs with everything they’d need to live on in an afterlife not unlike their own world, just filled with more fun. In the modern era, the ultra-wealthy have attempted to live on through their legacies: sponsoring museums and galleries to immortalize their names. Today’s elite take life-extension a lot more literally.
You also have this metaphor of organisms—or our bodies—being cities or societies. Each individual element isn’t enough to bring things grinding to a halt, but they can start a cascade where things go awry. In our bodies cells are dying all the time and being replaced. We don’t even notice it, we certainly don’t think of it as death, even though millions of cells are dying all the time. So what do we mean by death? Well, when we die the contrary is true.
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