The billionaire-led quest for immortality

What if Jeff Bezos or Peter Thiel could live forever?

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Peter Thiel.
Death 'is the next problem waiting to be solved,' BBC reporter Aleks Krotoski told The Guardian
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What if we told you it was possible to live forever? Or, if not forever, much longer than you can now? While a mythological anti-aging elixir has yet to materialize, millionaires and billionaires have, for years, been pouring not-insignificant amounts of their massive fortunes into immortality research, a science that hopes to, in simple terms, find a cure for aging. 

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Brigid Kennedy

Brigid Kennedy worked at The Week from 2021 to 2023 as a staff writer, junior editor and then story editor, with an interest in U.S. politics, the economy and the music industry.