Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime

This book has two main goals: to describe the primary biologic bases of human aging, and to present de Grey's proposals to "engineer" solutions to these processes which would provide human's with a 1000 year lifespan.

de Grey does an excellent job with both, but I feel misses entirely the social and political impact of his goals.

This could have been interesting if it weren't written like an infomercial and the science organized in a way that was more digestible to a non-medical person.

"SENS" -- Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence, with hoped-for success a few decades hence. Numbingly detailed. A cynic might say the book is a big long infomercial. The reader is exhorted to donate to the Methuselah Foundation, which happens to be headed by de Grey. One of the "plaudits" on the back of the dust jacket, astonishingly enough, says "this man could be put in jail with reasonable cause."

Endless Ageing: to what end?: If worn-out human parts can be replaced and a person can live to be 300 to 400 years, won't only the very rich be able to afford this technology? What economic chaos there would be if everybody could get a life extension. We're running out of Social Security monies now, jobs are being exported daily. How would a 300-year old person earn enough to eat. What about the overpopulation issue? The mexicans are reproducing at 5 times the rate of everyone else in America. Add to this the undead created by Endless Ageing technology and you get a lot of people that need jobs in order to economically sustain life. Would a 400 year old want to learn spanish. Would the oldsters want to move to India to answer phones. show more Lets get serious. The authors need a brain replacement NOW. show less