The Backlash

In part four of the Immortality series: is there something fundamentally irresponsible about the pursuit of radical life extension?

In the previous installment of this series, we discussed the possibility of new scientific breakthroughs that might actually slow down the aging process itself. Needless to say, there is a long history of magic elixirs that promised to extend our lives. Herodotus described an unusually long-lived tribe from modern-day Somalia who bathed in special sprin…