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Two recent anti-aging breakthroughs

Researchers at Texas A&M University have developed a method to rejuvenate old and damaged human cells by replacing their mitochondria.

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have discovered how to reverse aging in blood-forming stem cells in mice by corre

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The Vitalist Declaration

01 Life and health are good. Death is humanity's core problem, and aging its primary agent. 02 Aging causes immense suffering, and obviating aging is scientifically plausible. 03 Humanity should apply the necessary resources to reach freedom from aging as soon as possible. 04 I will work on or support others to work on reaching unlimited healthy human lifespan. 05 I will carry the message against aging and death.

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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.28.702375v1

Cryopreservation, or the posthumous freezing of the body/head/or brain for future revival, has been around a long time. It's either visionary and ahead of its time, or highly speculative naively hopeful, or both. If, like me, you're curious about the furthest edges of human, technological and scientific possibility, you've probably already heard of it.

I'm not knowledgeable enough about biology to know whether cryopreservation was even theoretically possible or more of a techno-utopian fantasy. But now it looks like it might be technically feasible.

Between feasible cryopreservation, anti-aging research, and medical/engineering/scientific a.i., we're once again playing ethical catch-up with our technology and knowledge.

Outside of a smattering of individuals, institutions, academic journals and literature, our species doesn't do a very good job overall of thinking about the future.[1] Much of our attention is focused on the present. Future oriented minds are highly outnumbered by politically active forces of reaction whose anticipated future is limited to a recapitulation of the past or idealizations of the past. A necessary consequence of this lack of cultural foresight is that we stumble into problems repeatedly, causing ourselves needless harm.

Will lifespans of 150 or 200 or 500 years be possible within most of our lifetimes? Will death become voluntary this century? What does this mean for everything that we do and how we think about ourselves?

[1] We already don't do an adequate job teaching literacy, let alone specific literacies like history, science, or moral/ethical literacy, or philosophical literacy, but in light of the increasing rapidity of technological change, a more futures literate population would be desirable. At least according to my political lights, an intellectually serious society would have already established futures literacy as a goal for K-12 education and beyond. For background on futures studies in education see Creating the School You Want: Learning at Tomorrow's Edge (2010), edited by Arthur B. Shostak, and Futures Education (World Yearbook of Education 1998) edited by David Hicks and Richard Slaughter.

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Is death inevitable? Until now, the history of mankind has been marked by this fatal fact. Religions, borders and progress are born from an ancient fear of death, comfort from this fear man often found only in religious paradigms. But according to José Luis Cordeiro and David Wood, the incontrovertible fact of death is no longer an absolute certainty - science and technology are preparing to tear down the final frontier: that of immortality.

This accessible book provides insight into recent exponential advances in artificial intelligence, tissue regeneration, stem cell treatment, organ printing, cryopreservation, and genetic therapies that, for the first time in human history, offer a realistic chance to solve the problem of the aging of the human body. In this book, Cordeiro and Wood not only present all the major developments, initiatives, and ideas for eternal life, they also show why there are a number of good arguments for seeing death for what it is: the last undefeated disease.

Enter any drugstore or bookstore, and we confronted with a mountain of nonsense concerning the aging process. Society seems obsessed with aging. That is why The Death of Death is such a refreshing delight, able to cut through the hype and reveal a balanced, authoritative, and lucid discussion of this controversial topic. It summarizes the astonishing breakthroughs made recently in revealing how science may one day conquer the aging process. Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and author of The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything

We are entering a Fantastic Voyage into life extension, crossing different bridges that will take us to indefinite life spans. The Death of Death explains clearly how we might soon reach longevity escape velocity and live long enough to live forever. Ray Kurzweil, co-author of Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever and co-founder of Singularity University

The Death of Death is a truly revolutionary book. This is a visionary book that confronts us with the terrible reality of aging, and its authors are friends and connoisseurs of the subject. I believe that the authoritative and exhaustive description of this crusade that José and David make in this excellent book will accelerate this process. Forward! Aubrey de Grey, founder of LEV (Longevity Escape Velocity) Foundation and co-author of Ending Aging

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Screen capture from a talk by philosopher Ingemar Patrick Linden on arguments against life extension (and by implication for life extension). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XiJLk7xjv8

Major edit. I watched a little bit further and indeed there was a further question addressing my original concern.

What explains that 56%? It seems like the answer to that question might reveal more than just beliefs and attitudes about aging and death.

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https://www.sens.org/

How much of the dysfunction of individuals and the world can ultimately trace its roots to the shortness of our lives?

How much despair resides in the sometimes admitted fact that we only have a few short decades before inevitable decline asserts its indomitable authority?

What would it mean for everything about us if most or all of human disease and poor health could be avoided? Is this just too good to be true? Isn’t there greater psychological safety in not placing our ultimate hopes in that which may never come to pass?

But what if it is actually within our capability to fix ourselves? To end aging? To profoundly heal, make whole and save ourselves since no one else will?

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https://twitter.com/aubreydegrey/status/1371196809595346950

Longevity escape velocity: In the context of anti-aging research, the future point at which if you avail yourself of the anti-aging therapies then available, they should carry you over (either through slowing or stopping some aspect of aging) to the next anti-aging breakthroughs, which in turn will have an even more pronounced anti-aging effect that will enable you to live until the next breakthroughs, and so on indefinitely.

In Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To, by Harvard Scientist David Sinclair, he claims that aging will be easier to end than cancer.