{"id":116734,"date":"2025-10-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/?post_type=ftm_collection&p=116734"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:13:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:13:13","slug":"longevity","status":"publish","type":"ftm_collection","link":"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/collections\/longevity","title":{"rendered":"The End of Death as We Know It?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n The End of Death as We Know It? <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n
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Longevity researchers aren\u2019t just on the cusp of extending the number of years people live. They\u2019re also discovering ways to prevent and treat the physical ailments and neurodegenerative diseases that often come with age. In this collection of features, essays, and op-eds, Freethink maps the frontier \u2014 from lab breakthroughs to clinical trials and the startups scaling them \u2014 separating hype from evidence, while also exploring some of the philosophical and ethical questions surrounding the longevity movement. We hope you enjoy.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n \n Aging <\/a>\n<\/div> \n The promise of longevity: A future with more time \u2014 and more meaning <\/a>\n
\n An introduction to Freethink’s Longevity Issue: features, essays, and op-eds on the science, ethics, and promise of longer, healthier lives. <\/div>\n
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\u201cThe first longevity medicines could be approved in time for most people alive today \u2014 maybe even in the next five years, if we get serious about the science.\u201d<\/p>\nAndrew Steele<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n \n Aging <\/a>\n<\/div> \n Longevity progress is real. So are the scams. <\/a>\n
\n Longevity is in a paradoxical place at the moment, with anti-aging influencers misrepresenting real progress in order to make money. <\/div>\n
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\n \n Aging <\/a>\n<\/div> \n Who wants to live forever? Not me. <\/a>\n
\n Most Americans remain wary of immortality, and research helps explain the mix of ethics, faith, and fear behind that resistance. <\/div>\n
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\n \n Aging <\/a>\n<\/div> \n Aubrey de Grey: “We need a COVID-scale war on aging.” <\/a>\n
\n Biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey discusses the burgeoning longevity movement and barriers to its progress. <\/div>\n
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\n Why women consistently outlive men is a mystery \u2014 and it may influence the future of longevity medicine. <\/div>\n
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\u201cDogs are a great model of human aging. If something works in a dog \u2026 it\u2019s pretty compelling evidence that it might also work in a human.\u201d<\/p>\nCeline Halioua<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n \n Aging <\/a>\n<\/div> \n Retro Biosciences wants to add 10 healthy years to your life <\/a>\n
\n Backed by $180 million in funding from OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Joe Betts-LaCroix\u2019s Retro Biosciences is racing to extend the human healthspan. <\/div>\n
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\n Studying animals \u2014 from long-lived clams to everyday dogs \u2014 is helping scientists understand aging and design therapies to slow decline. <\/div>\n
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\n Field notes from Vitalist Bay, an 8-week longevity zone in Berkeley where CEOs, scientists, and activists united to fight aging. <\/div>\n
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\n The technology could one day allow people with terminal illnesses to go into “hibernation” until a cure is found. <\/div>\n
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\n \n Aging <\/a>\n<\/div> \n The longevity movement is growing \u2014 but it needs to go global <\/a>\n
\n Progress in longevity is real, but experts say the field needs government funding, policy reform, and public buy-in to reach its potential. <\/div>\n
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\n \n Aging <\/a>\n<\/div> \n Living longer \u2014 and healthier \u2014 starts with boosting your brain <\/a>\n
\n Science is beginning to unravel the reasons behind age-related cognitive decline \u2014 and what we can do about it. <\/div>\n
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“I\u2019m just brimming with optimism because I know we can do this. We can flip the elderly from being the \u2018illderly\u2019 to the \u2018wellderly.\u2019”<\/p>\nEric Topol<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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\n \n Aging <\/a>\n<\/div> \n Forget just living longer. Eric Topol wants to help Americans live better, too. <\/a>\n
\n In “Super Agers,” the writer and medical researcher maps a path to extending healthspan with AI, targeted drugs, and lifestyle changes. <\/div>\n
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\n \n Aging <\/a>\n<\/div> \n Experts weigh in on popular “anti-aging” treatments: real or scam? <\/a>\n
\n Experts cut through longevity hype, debunking supplements, IV drips, and cold plunges while pointing to what actually works. <\/div>\n
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\n \n AI <\/a>\n<\/div> \n AI deadbots can keep \u201cyou\u201d around after death \u2014 what does that mean for the living? <\/a>\n
\n We can now use AI to create versions of real people that can live on long after their bodies die. But should we? <\/div>\n
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\n \n Death <\/a>\n<\/div> \n Groundhog Day and other eternal nightmares: Five philosophical takes on living forever <\/a>\n
\n From eternal recurrence to techno-dualism, five philosophical visions of immortality \u2014 and why most paths to forever end badly. <\/div>\n
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\n \n Death <\/a>\n<\/div> \n Immortality isn\u2019t progress. It\u2019s paralysis. <\/a>\n
\n The pursuit of immortality ignores how death powers life\u2019s natural cycles, from cellular turnover to ecological renewal and adaptation. <\/div>\n
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