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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve it through not dying."
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-- Woody Allen
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Make a conscious choice to live a longer, healthier life. You can make a real difference to the future of your healthy life span
through diet, exercise, lifestyle, and medical choices - but also activism for longevity research. You can make a big difference to your
health in the near term with the techniques and technologies of today, but ultimately we are all dependent on the advance of medical technology;
the more reason to help speed that process. By joining the community, taking better
care of your health, and supporting progress in longevity science, you can
help to improve the future of health and longevity worldwide.
An extended life is a longer, healthier life. Healthy life extension
gives you more vital years; it does not extend time spent in frail heath or debility. By supporting the best directions in longevity science, you
help to separate age from accompanying sickness, wisdom from accompanying frailty. This is a noble goal: to develop medical technologies
that will allow us to be old and wise without being feeble and diseased.
At the end of the healthy life extension road, somewhere in the decades ahead, lies the cure for aging - medical technologies capable
of preventing and repairing all the root
causes of age-related disease and degeneration. Getting there will be hard work: activism, fundraising, scientific research, and political
battles. It will be worth it: imagine retaining the vitality and health of a thirty-year-old for as long as you choose. Imagine a world in
which centenarians are the most productive members of the workforce. We become better people by working to bring that future closer.
We are often asked "why live longer? Won't it get boring?" To which we answer:
life is as interesting as you choose to make it. When was the last time you decided that you didn't have time? Don't you want to see what will
happen tomorrow? Haven't you ever wanted to try another career? Pick up a new skill? Take a year-long vacation? The future of longevity science can
make that extra time possible.
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| Last updated September 05, 2008 |
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