Joao Pedro de Magalhaes | The Scientific Quest for Immortality

People have always sought eternal life and everlasting youth, thus far without success. Recent technological breakthroughs have given strength to the idea that a cure for human aging can eventually be developed. In this talk, Joao discusses the latest advances in aging therapies and the prospects of curing human aging. If aging is unlikely to be controlled or cured within the foreseeable future, the only scientific avenue to eternal life is via cryopreservation. He would like to see death perceived as the truly horrendous experience it really is.