The Ethical Dilemmas of Immortality | Live Science

SPECIAL REPORT, PART 2: If researchers create a fountain of youth, will everyone get a chance to drink from it? And what if people routinely live past 100 but are miserable?

Misao Okawa of Japan, who died April 1, 2015, was the world's oldest woman at 117. (Image credit: GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS) Share Copy link Facebook X Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Share this article Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter For John Harris, saving a life and delaying its end is one and the same. Using this logic, Harris, a bioethicist at the University of Manchester, England, figures that scientists have a moral duty to extend the human life span as far as it will go, even if it means creating beings that live for

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