The Quest for Eternal Life

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THE urge to prolong life has long been a human obsession; if the meaning of existence is uncertain, death is an unfathomable concept for most of us. Or, as Woody Allen put it: "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve it through not dying."

The theme of eternal life runs throughout myth and legend - the story of the Fountain of Youth has uncertain origins but that has never stopped people questing for it.

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The Quest for Eternal Life

In the 16th century, Juan Ponce De Leon, a Spaniard who sailed with Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the New W...

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