Chasing Life
New Discoveries in the Search for Immortality to Help You Age Less Today
Chapter One
Beginning the Chase
As I started to talk about my modern-day quest for immortality with
colleagues and contacts I had developed over the years, I heard
murmurs about a group of Russians who were convinced they had
stumbled on the fountain of youth. More specifically, they were
confident they had developed ways to achieve a sort of practical
immortality. In fact, the word echoing through the longevity
chambers was that we were rapidly arriving at a time when the only
limit on life span might simply be an individual's decision to stop
living. Visions of youthful 120-year-olds with several genetically
perfect transplanted body parts, exchanged like a muffler or
transmission, danced through my head. These Russians heard of my
chase for life and started trying to make contact with me. Surely
they wanted me to use my platform as a journalist to shine a light
on their own work. Honestly, at first, I was skeptical, and it
hardly seemed worth pursuing. As I read more and more abo ... read full excerpt from Chasing Life: New Discoveries in the Search for Immortality to Help You Age Less Today ebook
