While you are sipping your well-steeped green tea, full of antioxidants to help you gracefully weather the effects of aging, consider that you may live to be 1000. It sounds ridiculous, strange and perhaps unethical - but it is extremely interesting.

On a lighter but no less gripping note, de Grey’s timescale presents a nice problem for a very spoilt generation, the babyboomers. This population bulge, caused by the increasing number of births after the second world war, covers people aged roughly between 50 and 60. If it is to be 30 years before immortality technology becomes available, this most pampered generation in human history might also be the last generation to die. They got their decaff lattes but they didn’t get eternal life. It is hard not to laugh.
...Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman are babyboomers in their mid-fifties and both have decided they want to live for ever. Their book describing how to do it — Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever — is to be published here in May.

At the bottom of the article is a hilarious "13-Step Appleyard Programme" about how to live long enough to live forever.

1. Don’t even think about smoking and, preferably, don’t hang glide.