There is great reason for hope on the not-so-distant horizon, but those battling against the ravages of aging right now must do so in a world in whic… - David A. Sinclair

Our DNA is not our destiny.

simply keeping people alive — decades after their lives have become defined by pain, disease, frailty, and immobility — is no virtue.

Your generation, just like all the ones that came before, didn't do anything about the destruction that is being done to this planet," Alex told me that evening. "And now you want to help people live longer? So they can do even more damage to the world?
I went to bed that night troubled. Not by our firstborn's denouncement of me; of that, I admit, I was a little proud. We'll never destroy the global patriarchy if our children don't first practice on their fathers.