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Humankind has been searching for an elixir of life for thousands of years, and today’s biological tech has us pushing the boundaries of a future without death.

"It's perfectly reasonable to want people to be healthier. But like I said, we need to be very healthily skeptical about the possibilities of this going too far. Certainly, there's a reasonable range for life extension or for health extension, but there are also probably some unreasonable measures that are either impossible or that we should seriously consider not taking."

Brian Green, director, technology ethics, featured in a video by Popular Mechanics (paywall).