In 2006 60 Minutes aired a program titled “The Quest for Immortality” in which the venerated media institution opened with these sentences: “How’s this for an offer you can’t refuse: how would you like to live say, 400 or 500 years, or even more and all of them in perfect health? . . . There are those who say it is well within the realm of possibility.” 3 In 2008 The Economist published an article with similar sentiments, titled “How to Live Forever: Abolishing Ageing.”
