{"id":73355,"date":"2017-10-17T19:42:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T02:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/whenever-the-topic-of-increasing-human-lifespan-is-discussed-the-concern-is-sometimes-raised-that-a-longer-life-would-mean-a-life-spent-frail-and-decrepit"},"modified":"2017-10-17T19:42:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T02:42:37","slug":"whenever-the-topic-of-increasing-human-lifespan-is-discussed-the-concern-is-sometimes-raised-that-a-longer-life-would-mean-a-life-spent-frail-and-decrepit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/whenever-the-topic-of-increasing-human-lifespan-is-discussed-the-concern-is-sometimes-raised-that-a-longer-life-would-mean-a-life-spent-frail-and-decrepit","title":{"rendered":"Whenever the topic of increasing human lifespan is discussed the concern is sometimes raised that a longer life would mean a life spent frail and decrepit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/whenever-the-topic-of-increasing-human-lifespan-is-discussed-the-concern-is-sometimes-raised-that-a-longer-life-would-mean-a-life-spent-frail-and-decrepit.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whenever the topic of increasing human lifespan is discussed the concern is sometimes raised that a longer life would mean a life spent frail and decrepit. This is sometimes known as the Tithonus error and shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the aims of rejuvenation biotechnology. The concern is based on the ancient Greek myth of Tithonus which might be thought of as a cautionary tale warning seekers of an eternal life of its alleged inherent dangers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/endagingnow\/permalink\/1551883411558789\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/endagingnow\/permalink\/1551883411558789\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever the topic of increasing human lifespan is discussed the concern is sometimes raised that a longer life would mean a life spent frail and decrepit. This is sometimes known as the Tithonus error and shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the aims of rejuvenation biotechnology. The concern is based on the ancient Greek myth of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73355","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\/73355","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\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}