Political Struggle For Immortality
Though a lot of scientists state that radical life extension, delaying and stopping aging are achievable there are still no an international or national programs focused on stopping ageing or on radical life extension. There are political forces staying for and against immortality. In 2012 in Russia, and then in USA, Israel and Netherlands the pro-immortality Longevity political parties were launched. They aimed to provide political support to anti-ageing and radical life extension research and technologies and want to ensure fastest possible and at the same time soft society transition to the next step -radical life extension, life without ageing, and finally - immortality and aim to make it possible to provide the access to such technologies to the most of the currently living people.
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