Aging 2008 is the opening session for the technically focused Understanding Aging conference, running June 28-29 at UCLA.
Their press release opens up with: "Have you ever dreamed climbing Mount Everest on your 125th birthday?"
From the far this sounds cool, but I just think, why would you want to? What a waist of passion to direct it towards climbing the highest rock on earth. I once heard that the natives didn't even have a name for Mount Everest, because compared to all the other mountains around him, he was just unspectacular, not worth a name.
If you really ant to live forever, you wouldn't put yourself in such a risky situation. I recommend reading Into thin Air by Jon Krakauer. It describes in vivid details the risks involved. Wanting to live forever has its limiting factors.
Honestly the woman on the event picture just looks a bit creepy and I start to wonder whether the most pressing question on this earth isn't aging, but why almost everyone is following the cult of wanting to be young, wanting to look younger ... More on that in a later post.
Truth is, I really like Aubrey de Grey. The Future Salon debate between him and William Hurlbut was one of our best Salons ever.
We were afterwards standing outside and he said, that it is O.K. with him, if he dies before the problem of aging is solved. He, and I am transcribing now from memory, will be happy that he has done what he could to solve the problem and to push solutions forward.
Therefore I am a bit bummed, that I am not in LA at that time to join him and top scientists and advocates at this event. I would have loved to get an update.
Picture from the Future Current
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