{"id":93059,"date":"2019-07-03T01:43:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T08:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/humans-dont-actually-want-to-be-immortal-we-just-want-to-be-forever-young"},"modified":"2019-07-03T01:43:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T08:43:14","slug":"humans-dont-actually-want-to-be-immortal-we-just-want-to-be-forever-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/humans-dont-actually-want-to-be-immortal-we-just-want-to-be-forever-young","title":{"rendered":"Humans don\u2019t actually want to be immortal, we just want to be forever young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l9IDoAPC6Ps?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For a personal sense of wellness, we may still be better off thinking of aging as an inevitable process with certain positive aspects\u2014like additional wisdom accumulated through experience\u2014rather than a sickness we hope to eradicate. If the many startups working on extended youth and anti-aging endeavors actually manage to create a magic potion that keeps us forever young, then someday we may get the chance to think about what, if anything, humanity loses when it finally finds the fountain of youth.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Aging has come to be seen as a disease we should be preventing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a personal sense of wellness, we may still be better off thinking of aging as an inevitable process with certain positive aspects\u2014like additional wisdom accumulated through experience\u2014rather than a sickness we hope to eradicate. If the many startups working on extended youth and anti-aging endeavors actually manage to create a magic potion that keeps [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93059","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\/93059","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}