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20 #1 Fall 2008 Probing de Grey Matters A conversation with Ending Aging author and Methuselah Foundation Chairman Aubrey de Grey RU Sirius roughout history, human beings have quested after rejuvenation – in myth and in fact. Here in the US, legend has it that Spanish conquistador Ponce de Leon came to Florida looking for the Fountain of Youth. It is perhaps a great irony, then, that Florida -- famous for its retirees -- is a place where the fact that aging still rules is most evident. During the 1960s, some individuals began to suggest that radical increases in longevity – even immortality – was within our grasp, not by dint of the discovery of some magic waters, alchemical elixirs, or Taoist methodologies, but through the use of science and technology. In 1964, Rob- ert C. W. Ettinger published e Prospect of Immortality, which encouraged the notion of cryogenic preservation in the expecta- tion that our understanding of biology and other advances in science and technology would allow us to defeat death. By 1993, Mike West had formed Geron corporation, hoping – among other things – to someday market cures for aging. And, in 1999, Cynthia Kenyon formed Elixer Pharmaceuticals, a company that was even more explicitly dedicated to finding a phar- maceutical solution to the aging problem. During that same decade, a very lively com- munity of transhumanists and extropians were exploring and extrapolating about the possibilities of resolving this aging thing – and what the world would look like if we did. Sometime around the turn of the mil- lennium, Aubrey de Grey, an English biogerontologist who is now as famous for his long beard that makes him look like Fa- ther Time as he is for his outspoken vision of radical life extension -- looked at aging as an engineering problem and decided… Eureka!... we can do this. I think it's vital to get all of them (categories of damage) fixed as soon as possible, because any one of them could kill us on its own. THE CHOICE FOR LIFE EXTENSION #,)#+å(%2% WWWALCORORG &REEå )NFORMATION 0ACKAGE ONå#RYONICSå &OR A !LCORåISåTHEåWORLDå LEADERåINåCRYONICSå CRYONICSåRESEARCHåANDå CRYONICSåTECHNOLOGY #RYONICS IS AN ATTEMPT TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE GIFT OF HUMAN LIFE &REEå )NFORMATION 0ACKAGE ONå#RYONICSå CLICK HERE FOR A WWWALCORORG 7HY NOT EXPLORE ALL THE OPTIONS