It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun.

There is no difference between saving lives and extending lives, because in both cases we are giving people the chance of more life.

Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.

What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

Theres nothing wrong with making the best of ones declining years, but what does annoy me is the fatalism. Now that were seriously in range of finding therapies that actually work against ageing, this apathy, of course, becomes an enormous part of the problem.

I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.

It's not just about life, of course; it's about healthy life. Getting frail and miserable and dependent is no fun, whether or not dying may be fun.