is it wise to seek to live forever? stephen cave, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it is a great pleasure. you believe our human awareness of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they would not be around as if they did not. the mountain did not care about surviving would not pass on genes. we come for from a long line of creatures that determined to keep going but we have these big brands that is part of our survival mechanism allow us to see the future, to generalise and we are conscious of ourselves as individuals and that means we are conscious of our own death and out of all the billions of creatures on earth, very few creatures have to live with that terrible awareness that all of their efforts will come to nothing safe we look back to human history, we see humanity struggling to make sense of this. some of the earliest archaeological evidence we find of human development is su
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appreciating the time we have here on earth. here on earth. in the past on this programme here on earth. in the past on this programme i here on earth. in the past on this programme i have - here on earth. in the past on| this programme i have talked here on earth. in the past on i this programme i have talked to santas who have devoted a great deal of time, money and effort who have looked to block and even reverse the ageing process in human beings. scientists. doctor gray is one proponent of this effort and he reckoned that within our lifetime, we may see human beings living for hundreds, if not a thousand years. is it that not something to embrace, indeed to encourage scientists to work upon?- scientists to work upon? there are many scientists to work upon? there are many age scientists to work upon? there are many age related - scientists to work upon? there are many age related diseases| are many age related diseases which are extremely debilitating and many lives are
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