"Fountain of Youth" within our grasp, scientists say
April 16 2008 / by futuretalk / In association with Future Blogger.net
Category: Health & Medicine Year: General Rating: 8 Hot
By Dick Pelletier
Imagine playing basketball at age 200 with your
great-great-great grandchildren, or flying a spaceship to
Alpha Centauri in
the next millennium. If life extension scientists achieve their
goals, regardless of age, your “rejuvenated” body of the future
will always remain in perfect health, allowing you to experience
the many wonders predicted for this century and beyond. 
A growing number of researchers from around the world believe that eternal health and youth will soon be realized. Aging is a destructive biochemical event, scientists say, and we are on the brink of understanding its life-destroying processes.
In a 60 Minutes interview, anti-aging guru Aubrey de Grey said that science will soon develop the means to create indefinite lifespans. “First generation therapies will give us maybe thirty extra years of healthy living,” de Grey said; “new therapies will then add another thirty years; always keeping us one step ahead of the grim reaper.”
Futurist Ray Kurzweil, in a recent C-Span2 broadcast confirmed that we are in early stages of profound revolutions in anti-aging technologies. “Soon,” Kurzweil says, “biotech upgrades will add more than one year of life expectancy to our lives each year.”
British Telecom’s Ian Pearson makes an even bolder prediction. This futurologist believes that advances in the next three decades will be sufficient for us to make a realistic stab at ending death. “Unless one is unfortunate enough to die from accident or disease, many alive today have a good chance of not dying at all,” Pearson says. (cont.)
