Life Extension: Cottage Industry

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The quest to extend human life is both fascinating and fraught with moral peril

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David Gergen : Life extension has long been a cottage industry for people who want to live forever.

He says the quest to expand the human lifespan is fascinating and fraught with moral peril.

But underlying such desires is an equally important ethical and spiritual reality, Gergen says.

Gergen asks: Is it a good thing morally speaking, morally speaking?.

What if the dreams of the life extension gurus were realized? Would the world be a better place? What if a longer-lived Einstein could have accomplished or even exceeded the harm of a Stalin who remained healthy and vigorous for decades beyond his death? At some point, preserving indefinitely the lives of those now living would mean less room for those who do not yet exist.

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