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Kazakhstan to develop elixir of life

By T.K. Randall
December 11, 2010 · Comment icon 18 comments

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Kazakhstan's president has urged scientists to concentrate their efforts on finding a cure for ageing.
70-year-old Nursultan Nazarbayev said in a statement - "as for the medicine of the future, people of my age are really hoping all of this will happen as soon as possible." It is the third time in the space of a year that he has urged scientists to seek a way to keep death at bay.
Cleopatra may have bathed in asses' milk to preserve her youth but Nursultan Nazarbayev, the autocratic president of Kazakhstan, wants nothing less than an elixir of life to keep him going.


Source: Guardian Unlimited | Comments (18)




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Comment icon #9 Posted by Samael 14 years ago
Nazarbayev has been boss of Kazakhstan ever since the USSR collapsed in 1991. He was supposedly next in line to be boss of the Soviet Union after Gorbachev, but ended up with Kazakhstan as a consolution prize. It's a gangster/mafia republic like Russia itself, and Nazarbayev is president for life. Evidently he's planning to stick around as long as possible. This is my great fear with life extension: that all kinds of dictators, aristocrats, gangsters, celebrities, the rich and powerful in general will try to keep themselves alive forever. We won't even be able to get rid of them through the de... [More]
Comment icon #10 Posted by Twinkle Arora is back 14 years ago
Ok, good luck with that not like anyone worth less than a couple hundred billion dollars would ever see it anyway Yeah I agree, This would certainly make life a commodity that one can purchase and extend. This could certainly create very big social issues and gaps between different levels of society unless they provide it at a rate that everyone can afford or less unlikely free.
Comment icon #11 Posted by TheMcGuffin 14 years ago
When did death become a democracy? I'm pretty sure that the population doesn't vote for who dies when :| It is democratic in the sense that everyone has equal status in death, no matter how much money then had when alive, which is definitely not the case with birth.
Comment icon #12 Posted by JGirl 14 years ago
When did death become a democracy? I'm pretty sure that the population doesn't vote for who dies when :| wouldn't it be seriously scary if people could vote you off the planet?
Comment icon #13 Posted by Knight Of Shadows 14 years ago
lol .. like that'll ever happen they can search all they like .. it's not possiable
Comment icon #14 Posted by hetrodoxly 14 years ago
Yeah I agree, This would certainly make life a commodity that one can purchase and extend. This could certainly create very big social issues and gaps between different levels of society unless they provide it at a rate that everyone can afford or less unlikely free. I thought this to be the status que?
Comment icon #15 Posted by Wolvenblood 14 years ago
if we were immortals then no deaths would mean the population wouldn't settle down...it'd constantly grow with new births and then all kinds of trouble starts.
Comment icon #16 Posted by electro13 14 years ago
If man could extend his life span to say two, three houndred years, you'll probably find that most people would want to chuck in the towell after about 200. You can be subject to, and witness alot of suffering in that space of time. Not too uplifting when your still trapped in an old persons body.
Comment icon #17 Posted by Robert1 14 years ago
if we were immortals then no deaths would mean the population wouldn't settle down...it'd constantly grow with new births and then all kinds of trouble starts. I agree. If everyone lived forever, sooner or later you would have no place to park your car.
Comment icon #18 Posted by oDaVinci 13 years ago
Only the most vital human minds should be able to have access to this... Formula.


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