5 Ways To Live Forever (And 7 Reasons It Would Suck)

8. How To Live Forever

Okay, living a long and healthy life is one thing, but what about living forever?

Save for accidents (which are tricky to avoid) and infectious disease (which is becoming progressively easier to avoid), pretty much the only thing that kills you is the accumulation of molecular damage caused by copying errors as the body repairs and replaces cells. This is where we tend to get age-related diseases like cancers and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.

Well, now that modern medicine has gotten a good grip on infectious disease, it's setting its sights on tackling this next step.

The SENS Research Foundation (standing for Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence), and the wider scientific community, is currently pouring research into new regenerative medicines, including stem cell therapies, gene therapies, drugs and vaccines, to put a stop to the self destruct tendencies of the human body. If, through gene therapy, were able to prevent the errors and damage in the cell-repair process, your body would essentially stop ageing.

If your body stops ageing, we wipe out infectious disease and you are very careful to stay away from dangerous cliff edges ... there's no real reason why you would ever die (that we know of). Exciting stuff, for sure, but it is at this point we should consider the consequences of curing death...