Recently I attended a talk about whether death is inevitable now i have some rather strong feelings on death. However that is a matter for a different day. But even to me, stalling death seemed unreal, something out of Harry Potter, Isaac Asimov. Now obviously the first thing to do when someone is spouting such ridiculous theories is to get their head checked. However,imagine my surprise when this erstwhile prophet had been a professor at Cambridge. So this made me think that fair enough he must have some brains then. One does not become a Cambridge professor, if one does not have brains.

Anyway, further to the discussion, it actually made me queasy, this didn't seem like some sort of wonderful panacea. The whole process felt like pulling teeth. Even without the theological implications, the technical implications, and thet whole mess of crap that came along with it. The whole idea just felt plain wrong, a couple of my friends felt the exact same way. The consensus seem to be 'when my time is up, id like to go peacefully'. However, as the man himself said, before the Wright Brothers took off from Kitty Hawk that fateful day, man made flight was thought impossible. I sit here on the picadilly line, typing this out on my phone, I never thought even 5 years ago that this would happen.

But then again, I wonder when people started speculating about this things, did those things ever feel fundamentally wrong. From my discussions with other people, I don't seem to be alone this, will this technology ever come to pass, and if it does which route will it take, the Internet, Abortion or GM food. Internet, Abortion or GM food.

Gaurav Nayak