Longevity Stories

After one of the worst week's in her life, Samantha has to figure out what her next move is. Trigger warning for hints of sexual violence and talks of it!

Two strangers bump into each other, their eyes show a deep sense of glitter, the glimpse of first love. Will their love story, ever become true? Read on to find out the different shades of a story, a tale which would remain itched in our hearts for days to come.

These days you never know if the partner you with is going to be with you the rest of your life. We just never know.

At TechCrunch's 2015 "Disrupt NY" conference, Bill Maris, managing partner at Google ventures, spoke about his quest to extend human lifespan through Google Ventures' investments in longevity technology. Maris wanted to fund start-ups that would make living to 500 and beyond a reality. "Part of it," he told Bloomberg's Katrina Brooker, "is that it is better to live than to die." Is it? I asked myself. My science fiction writer's imagination couldn't let that assumption go by unquestioned. Don't get me wrong. I want to live a long time. But for 500-plus years? I don't know. Longevity technology raises some interesting, and unaddressed, questions. Will everyone benefit from the technology, rich and poor? And if all do, what do we do with all the people on an already overcrowded planet? What would still interest a person after a few centuries of life? Can human love last for centuries? How would the young feel about having so many super-centennials around? Is human nature built to last for 500 years? Set a century from now, The Immortal looks at these questions through the story of a love triangle loosely based on the tale Cyrano de Bergerac. In it, human longevity technology plays against human evolution, two ways of beating death. One man-made, the other nature's way. About the Cover: The image of the red-headed woman was created by Jun'ichiro Seyama using Average Face for iPhone. It is an "average" of 12 red-headed women and represents a kind of everywoman. The photo of the Australopithecus afarensis skull is from the Museum of Natural History, Basel (Switzerland). Both are used under the Creative Commons licenses.

The year is 2155. The country named Rinach is divided into two parts: Northern Rinach and Southern Rinach. Scientists are busy trying to find the cure to aging and already succeeded in extending the average human life. In Southern Rinach, inhabited by the unwealthy, this average lifespan lingers around 120 years, while the average lifespan in Northern Rinach is about 80 years longer. The people of Southern Rinach are being killed and neglected in order to control population growth. This results in revolts, in which Vlira and her companions participate after her mother was attacked by the one of the government's nasty infections. In the search for a cure for her mother, Vlira has to discard everything she ever stood for.

Each chapter is a different story, unless specified.

Here's the thing: I didn't ask to be part of some epic, world-saving rebellion. I just wanted answers. Answers about my mom, who disappeared when I was a kid. About why we're all stuck underground, surviving off flickering Solar Simulators while the so-called Upper World stays off-limits. And about what's really going on with the city's leaders, who seem a little too eager to keep everyone in the dark-literally and figuratively. But asking questions has consequences, and I've never been good at keeping my head down. The deeper I dig, the more I uncover secrets no one wants me to know-about my family, the Upper World, and a power that could change everything. Now, with the city on the brink of collapse, I'll have to decide how far I'm willing to go to find the truth-and whether I can live with the answers I might uncover.

‘Death is very likely the greatest invention of life.’ STEVE JOBS, THE APPLE CORPORATION. For millennia mankind has searched for the elixir of eternal youth. Science has now brought us to the very brink of this search. Advances already predict that babies born today could live to well over 100 and very shortly to 140 and beyond. This could be the biggest threat to humanity… ever. Imagine this world if only a few select individuals were invited to benefit from this utopian world of eternal youth, wealth and power. This is the world of Primogeniture. – A world where The Firstborn holds power absolute. – A world where the banishment of death becomes the ultimate prize. However, one unlikely individual holds the key. But will he part with his secret? It is said that every man has his price… As the stakes rise – the very future of mankind waivers in the balance.

During my third year of medical school I stumbled upon an online article about calorie restriction with optimal nutrition. I read about an apparently simple diet intervention that prolonged the average and maximum lifespan of laboratory animals such as yeast, fruit flies, worms and mice. At that time, I wasn't aware that such experiments were already done on non-human primates too. Honestly, I dismissed it as a curiosity, an intervention that could have some effect in simple organisms such as fruit flies, but something which would never work in complex beings like us. It just seemed too good to be true. Time passed and proved me wrong. Given an early childhood fascination with the limits of life extension, I studied engineering and medicine in an attempt to radically prolong human lifespan. After a short stint of research in neural prosthetics in a German lab, I realized implanting artificial devices into the human body is not a long-term solution. I returned home where I started the medical residency in geriatrics, the branch of medicine specialized in age-associated diseases. A funny thing happened then. Reading about theories of aging is one thing. Daily caring for people 3-4 times your age is a completely different thing and I started to connect the dots. I noticed some people aged like wine and others aged like vinegar. According to their skinny frames and detailed lifetime stories, it looked like calorie intake had something to do with it. That's how I got started in typing the first words for this book. To read the full book, go to http://longevityletter.com/books/eat-less-live-longer-your-practical-guide-to-calorie-restriction-with-optimal-nutrition/

In the year 2026 a tech company makes the next big technological leap, one that changes the story of the human race forever. Max, a young delivery man, finds himself with the opportunity to take advantage of this new technology. But with his newfound power will he become a better person or just be a better-off person?

Because more birthdays mean more cake!

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