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Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University

The quest to extend human life is both fascinating and fraught with moral peril

Tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson has made it his life's mission to delay aging and death. Netflix

“Who wants to live forever?” Freddie Mercury mournfully asks in Queen’s 1986 song of the same name.

The answer: Quite a few people – so much so that life extension has long been a cottage industry.

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