{"id":97980,"date":"2019-10-30T09:02:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T16:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/immortalitys-a-red-herring-we-want-indefinite-life-extension"},"modified":"2019-10-30T09:02:33","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T16:02:33","slug":"immortalitys-a-red-herring-we-want-indefinite-life-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/immortalitys-a-red-herring-we-want-indefinite-life-extension","title":{"rendered":"Immortality\u2019s a Red Herring; We Want Indefinite Life Extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/immortalitys-a-red-herring-we-want-indefinite-life-extension2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, popular YouTuber Life Noggin published a video titled \u201cWHY DO WE DIE?\u201d In this video, he briefly goes into the science behind the gradual cellular degradation of the biological substrate, which causes all known side-effects associated with aging. At the end of the video, however, he revealed that he\u2019d much rather \u201clive forever\u201d than die.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, his subscribers, which is nearly at 2.9 million, took to the comments section to overwhelmingly declare similar hopes. Not everyone was convinced, however.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>As we continue searching for the cure to aging, we\u2019ll need to better inform the public that we\u2019ve no intention of dictating how long they\u2019re to live and when they\u2019re to die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, popular YouTuber Life Noggin published a video titled \u201cWHY DO WE DIE?\u201d In this video, he briefly goes into the science behind the gradual cellular degradation of the biological substrate, which causes all known side-effects associated with aging. At the end of the video, however, he revealed that he\u2019d much rather [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97980","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\/97980","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\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}