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Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime | Aubrey de Grey, Michael Rae | Interesting and hopeful - Great read!

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	Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime Aubrey de Grey, Michael Rae St. Martin's Press, 2007 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 27 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Only if you're interested

After reading several, emotionally-charged, negative reviews, I felt I should write something rational to try to help someone who might be interested in reading this book.
If you're truly interested in the reasoning behind de Grey's optimism about human rejuvenation, you should DEFINITELY read this book.
If you're looking for lightweight entertainment, this book is not for you.
Also, let's be real: unless you're a qualified, competent, current, medical scientist, there's no way for you to decide whether de Grey's reasoning is sound.
It's hard to believe that all the reviews found here on Amazon.com were written by such scientists. I'm not even going to try to tell you if I agree with de Grey's science or not since I am not a scientist and truly have no idea if he's correct.
Nevertheless, if you're interested in the topic and have a strong desire to learn how de Grey thinks, this is the book for you. It is lengthy and detailed and covers a lot of ground. I enjoyed reading it. That's why I gave it 5 stars.
Frankly, I doubt that one person in 1000 (if that!) could truly understand and evaluate what de Grey is talking about so, unless you happen to be that person, don't expect to go to work in gerontology after reading this book and don't write a review that makes blanket statements about the claims in this book.
If you like to read and have an interest in these topics, you'll find it worthwhile. If you enjoy reading Ray Kurzweil's books, you'll probably enjoy this book.
Also, if you just want to encourage people like de Grey and Kurzweil to keep exploring, buy this book.
If you believe de Grey, Kurzweil and other 'futurists' are evil hucksters, then you should provide some evidence of it and don't buy their books. Ad hominem attacks against the authors of books don't help people decide if they want to read the book.
If you're so knowledgeable about science that you can shred the premise of this book, then you should be writing your own book on the topic and working in the field.
If you're not qualified to make that analysis or if you're so biased against futurists that you can't think straight, then there's not much point in writing a nasty review. It only reveals your own failings.

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Interesting and hopeful - Great read!

Professor De Gray lays out a fascinating and interesting look at some of the primary reasons behind the aging process and offers a discussion of potential therapeutic interventions to the problems associated with growing old. Let me state up front, I'm a computer programmer by trade and do not possess the knowledge to comment on the validity of Professor De Gray's claims. However, the book is targeted at both the layperson as well as expert and does an excellent job of describing the issues in understandable terms.

Professor De Gray views aging more as a disease than an inevitability and tenders reasonable discussion on how science might intervene to stop and even reverse the process.

From other interviews and articles I've read it appears that Aubrey De Gray challenges conventional wisdom on the subject of aging and biogerontology and that may well be one of his most important contributions in the search to end the myriad of suffering caused by this universal affliction.

This is a book of hope based on sound academic research and creative thinking. I highly recommend it.

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Immortality? Not in this space-time.

We humans might indeed extend life indefinitely, but we will only have more years to contemplate the end, however distant. Besides, a future nearby gamma ray burster is scheduled to sterilize our solar system. At least we can take comfort in the knowledge that our descendants will seed the universe with the dust of perfectly healthy mitochondria.

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