{"id":138900,"date":"2022-05-03T02:02:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T07:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/the-long-and-gruesome-history-of-people-trying-to-live-forever"},"modified":"2022-05-03T02:02:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T07:02:34","slug":"the-long-and-gruesome-history-of-people-trying-to-live-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/the-long-and-gruesome-history-of-people-trying-to-live-forever","title":{"rendered":"The long and gruesome history of people trying to live forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-long-and-gruesome-history-of-people-trying-to-live-forever2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Estimates put this industry\u2019s worth at a staggering $610 billion by 2025. \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The Renaissance philosopher Montaigne quipped that \u201cdeath has us by the scruff of the neck at every moment.\u201d He could have added: until, finally, it strangles us. But what if we knew how to escape death\u2019s chokehold? What if we could avoid death and live forever?<\/p>\n<p>Immortality might seem like the stuff of science fiction, yet it\u2019s increasingly becoming the focus of real science. In 2013, Google launched Calico, a biotech firm whose objective is to \u201csolve\u201d death. PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, meanwhile, has pledged to \u201cfight\u201d death. And last year, it was reported Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos had invested in Altos Labs, a company that plans to \u201crejuvenate\u201d cells in order to \u201creverse disease.\u201d (Bezos owns The Washington Post.) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.washingtonpost.com\/newsletters\/#\/bundle\/postmost?method=SURL&location=YAHOO&initiative=feed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and interesting stories from The Washington Post.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estimates put this industry\u2019s worth at a staggering $610 billion by 2025. \ud83d\ude33 The Renaissance philosopher Montaigne quipped that \u201cdeath has us by the scruff of the neck at every moment.\u201d He could have added: until, finally, it strangles us. But what if we knew how to escape death\u2019s chokehold? What if we could avoid [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}