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Once again a rich man thinks his money can stave off the grim reaper.
He so much wants to live forever he spends his life too scared too actually live.
Yes, the steps he is taking may extend his life for a few years but until we can reliably and safely alter our DNA he will run into the same problem of every person who has dreamed of eternal life. That our genetics seem to have a hard coded end of life at about 120 years.
In the past century the average human lifespan and the quality of those extra years his massively increased but the 120 hard stop has not.
Living that long is just absurd. And the mindset to think that he's too important to die is just a mental illness. I hope his doctors rip him off really good