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GLMX #245: How to Defy Death

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A recent feature story in the Washington Post states: "For centuries, explorers have searched the world for the fountain of youth. Today's billionaires believe they can create it, using technology and data." The story went on to describe how Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal, and Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, met with a molecular biologist and theoretician to discuss how they can use technology to slow down ageing and greatly elongate the human lifespan. The story also reported that Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle, "has proclaimed his wish to live forever and has donated more than $430 million to anti-aging research." He told his biographer, "Death has never made any sense to me. How can a person be there and then just vanish, just not be there?"

No doubt, every person who has lived has had questions about death. And nearly everyone has wondered at one time or another how they can extend their life or remain younger longer. Television ads about anti-aging creams and techniques populate the airwaves. People fret over dieting and health issues in an effort to look and feel younger. People have a seemingly natural desire to live longer -- even to defy death and live forever.

As the Washington Post story mentioned, the waters of the fabled Fountain of Youth were said to restore the youth of anyone who drank from them. This fountain was spoken of and sought after from the fourth century BC to the 16th century, from the far eastern land of China to Florida in the New World.

Despite the millions of dollars that are being invested in a bid to defy death, the Bible says, "It is appointed unto men once to die." You and I will die one day. It is not within man's power to escape death altogether.

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MUSICAL SELECTION: "I'm Alive" by Peter Furler

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