Do You Want to Live Forever?

This Thursday, S. Jay Olshansky, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Aubrey de Grey, a biogerontologist with The Methuselah Foundation—the two "Titans of Immortality Research," according to the Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity—will square off over radical life extension and whether they, and we, should want to live forever. The public debate will be held at the Arizona Science Center and in conjunction with the "Extending Life: Setting the Agenda for the Ethics of Aging, Death and Immortality" conference.