The Price of Immortality. The Race for Humanity's Last Dream

As medicine today changes the lives of many elderly people, the desire to take the next step — to live as long as we want — has sparked a scientific race for technologies in search of the elixir of life.... As technological progress accelerates, the possibility of making people immortal becomes increasingly plausible. However, this progress also attracts pseudoscientists, technical visionaries, fraudsters, and religious fanatics who seek to profit personally from the race for immortality. Peter Ward's book The Price of Immortality is a detailed, well-researched examination of the current state of the race for immortality, an attempt to separate scientists from fraudsters and an immersion into the eccentric world of startups, scientific institutions, and billionaires to find out what the price of immortality will be.