Buying Time ( An Attempt To Live Forever)

Man in time has been fascinated with the subject of death. There is this fear of it that makes everyone shudder at the thought of it. Almost everyone will opt to live forever if there is such an alternative. That may be wishful thinking for the average person. But there were some who have means to put the idea of living forever, or at least an attempt at it, in practice.

Larry Elison: Born August 17, 1944. Age: 73

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He is co-founder of Oracle Corporation, a multinational computer technology corporation. He was ranked in 2017, by Forbes magazine as the fifth richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $59.3 billion. He had donated about $430 million in grants to medical researchers since 1997, about 80% of which, has been focused on anti-aging developments.
He is quoted to say this:

"Death makes me angry. It doesn't make any sense to me. Death has never made any sense to me. How can a person be there and then just vanish, just not be there?

I could understand his frustration as it does not make any sense to me either.

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Peter Thiel: Born October 11, 1967. Age: 49

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He is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, philanthropist, political activist, and author. He had an estimated $2.7 billion and ranked No. 246 by Forbes400.

He does not hide his love for extending life as he takes hormone growth daily and had plans to participate in cryonic freezing after death.

^{Scientists are discovering new methods to prolong human life and, in the case of cryogenics, to suspend the possibility of life for centuries.}


He is a supporter of research in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. In 2006 he donated $3.5 million to the Methuselah Foundation, a non-profit group working on extending healthy life.

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Sergey Brin: Born August 21, 1973. Age: 43

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He is the co-founder of Google, internet entrepreneur and philanthropist. Brin is the 12th richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$45 billion.
He has donated over $150 million to research agencies and causes that are working on elongating life. The recent being the launching of $25 million to National Academy of Medicine's Grand Challenge in Health Longevity, as part of its efforts to, as one doctor puts it, "end aging forever."

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The next on this list is surprisingly young.

Mark Zuckerberg: Born May 14, 1984. Age: 33

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He is an American computer programmer and internet mogul. He is the co-founder of Facebook and its current CEO.
He is ranked no. 4 richest people in the world, as at August 2017, with a net worth of $55.5 billion.

Zuckerberg and wife, are founders of breakthroughprize which awards prize money of $3 million, of which one of the winners for 2017 is Yoshinori Ohsumi, a 72-year-old cell biologist of Japenese nationality.

Zuckerberg in a Q&A, on Facebook, asked
Professor Hawking when he said:

'Which of the big questions in science would you like to know the answer to and why?'

Zuckerberg replied:

'I'm most interested in questions about people. What will enable us to live forever? How do we cure all diseases?'

That is a question I am interested to know the answer.

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Walt Disney was born in 1901 and died in 1966 at age 65.
He told the family to preserve his body by freezing with hopes that future technology would allow for its reanimation.

Walt's request may be an urban legend but it does not seem so far-fetched MIT's researchers in 2016 were able to preserve the neurological functions of a rabbit brain by freezing it (cryogenics).
That could be applied to humans in the future. For now, we should be content to live few years then take a bow.

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