A depressing approach from Stanford:

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2009/january14/med-aging-011409.html

I don't know about you but I'm going to do everything
in my power to live as long as possible, because I do
not want to know what is on the other side, frankly...
My responsibility to my family, relatives, in-laws
and co-workers takes precedence over any personal
death-wish that a decaying society may wish to infuse
me with, which I refuse.

Something neat from Aubrey de Grey gives hope:

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=423155

And the remarkable interview of Sinclair and
Bush's misguided Medieval adviser Leon Kass:

http://realserver.bu.edu:8080/ramgen/w/b/wbur/storage/2004/01/theconnection_0106\
_2.rm

When Kass said we're not supposed to want to live
longer but instead live out our need for life through
our children, well, at that point I knew Bush was in
the 1500's or earlier as far as his science and thought
were concerned.

I will never vote for a mid-America candidate again, ever.
It is primitive thinking that goes on there. Inert, opaque,
vague, controlling, dogmatic, and inexact.

Stuart