I wrote a book to find out if science could solve aging. Here’s what I found out …

DESPITE our fascination with youth, the very idea that we can live forever strikes the brain as fundamentally silly, even wrong. When I would bring the subject up with friends or relatives, there was always a knowing rolling of the eyes: “Oh, pulleeeze, when I get old, just shoot me!” Or sometimes, “I’ve told my kids that when I can’t remember their names, it’s time for the Lethal Cocktail.”