The Immortalists | movie | 2014 | Official Trailer | dG1faXdreWlLVEZwX3c
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00:00Hundreds of years from now, we're going to look back and be shocked about this horrible
00:09world that we all used to live in, where people used to get old and die.
00:16We're interested not in slowing aging down, but in actually reversing it, turning back
00:21the biological clock.
00:24This is not science fiction.
00:29Even if I bring forward the defeat of aging by just one day, you know, that's a hundred
00:33thousand lives that I've saved.
00:36It's just astronomical.
00:41Harvard has actually been able to reverse aging in mice using telomere lengthening technology.
00:49Once we are really, truly repairing things as fast as they go wrong, game over.
00:55We will have the ability to live indefinitely.
00:59Slowing aging is a race.
01:00The clock ticks once, telomerase pushes it back.
01:05Ticks again, telomerase pushes it back.
01:07If Bill gets to his goal, then our marriage is forever and ever and ever.
01:13Think about that one.
01:15I can view myself as a poster boy, so to speak, for a future lifestyle.
01:21There's going to be much less difference between people of different chronological ages.
01:27This is snake oil, and dangerous snake oil.
01:31Dr. Andrews is simply a more recent iteration of similar personalities in the past.
01:37I'm not surprised that people don't believe us.
01:40What I really worry about is the possibility of a sudden breakthrough.
01:44The bigger question about humanity as a whole.
01:47If my mother had been healthy enough to benefit from these future therapies, then she would
01:53very much have wanted to.
01:54She had definitely not run out of things that she wanted to do in her life by any means.
02:01We are going to find something soon enough to allow my 84-year-old father to see his
02:07own aging reversed.
02:09Life is so funny.
02:10You can learn and learn and learn, and just about the time you learned what you wanted
02:15to learn, you die.
02:17It sometimes escapes the general public that scientists are actually human beings who enjoy
02:21having a good time as well.
02:23I really don't know what does happen when a person dies.
02:26I want to love.
02:28There's no glory in dying.