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    George Barahona (Venezuela)

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    Longevity And Books: A History Of Love

    The longevity its an ancient idea and several philosopher, Scholar and academic are writing about this fascinating field. One of the first ideas was writing by the
    great scientist and foundation father Benjamin Franklin.

    In the nineteen century the development of science fiction genre by writers to all thee world explore ideas as life extension, immortality and relatives.

    But was in the Twenty century when this ideas arise.

    The novel 1984 present the idea of a Utopian society design babies by a machine. Jorge Luis Borges told in the short story “The immortal” the history of a men and his quest for seeking the immortality.

    Another genre like the horror have a close connection too, for example the Bram Stroker novel Dracula surround the history of an immortal creature living by centuries,

    But in this text its the most indeed genre to know this marvellous ideas.

    Let me show five books for spend the time make some research.

    1. The Death Of The Death by Jose Cordeiro & David Wood: one of top list of sale. This essay its totally disruptive. The main premise its the death can be defeat and eradicate for the human life.

    2. Living 140 years by Maria Blasco: The Book of the Spanish researcher explain the importance of the concept of telomere for the human body and the new advance ts medical treatment.

    3. The prospect of immortality by Robert C. W, Ettinger: a vast essay about the method of preservationist and several issues in the 1960 and contain knowledge about sleep frozen and the suspension of the Hunan body.

    These books are really great for now more of longevity concepts and understand this fantastic ideas.

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