How To Stop Aging

Aging is a natural part of the process of living. So is dying. We are afraid of dying because we do not want to be launched into the unknown and we are afraid of aging mostly because it makes us look ugly. That’s the common fear. I don’t think we aknowledge that our faculties diminish until we actually start to experience it. Is there any point – other than diminishing our fears – to trying to stop aging?

Trying to stop aging invoves something in the here and now that we don’t like. Discipline. We are in a world where we subject ourselves to voluntary hardship or suffer the consequences.

Aubrey de Grey has some ideas about prevention of aging, so if you have twenty minutes or so, take a look at this video.