Anti-aging Technology

When myself and many other men are told we should get married or even just find a girlfriend, we rightfully demand a good reason. Many men have either decided women aren't worth the trouble of dealing with potential of everything from false rape charges to corrupt family courts or have been ignored by women and eventually come to the conclusion that they are better off. Usually, we get some sort of dangerous misinterpretation of the Bible or some type of shaming language. However, some people will try to come up with something resembling an actual reason. Personally, the only thing that anyone has been able to come up with, "What happens when you are old?" Essentially what they are referring to is being stuck in a nursing home with no family whatsoever while being frail due to old age. Really, what they're talking about is having kids more than finding a wife or a girlfriend, but since we don't have artifical wombs yet a woman has to be involved somewhere.

The problem is that there are men who will be swayed by this reasoning. The thought of being 85 with no family whatsoever (since many of us are only children now) stuck in a nursing home dealing with some sort of demetia is scary. This reasoning does have the obvious problems of whether your kids will want anything to do with you when they are adults and/or that you don't end up divorced in the process. In fact with a divorce you could end up in the worst of all possible situations of being alone when old but without the money you could have saved if you stayed single. Regardless, this is a mental logjam for many men. Once again, technology provides us the solution.

The solution is anti-aging technology. When I speak of anti-aging technology I'm not talking about snake oil or those stupid creams and make ups that claim to make you look younger. I'm talking about bioengineering technologies involving such technologies as genetic engineering and possibly nanotechnology to make your body younger than its chronological age. Imagine being 80, but having the body of a 25 year old or being 280 with the body of a 25 year old.

Anti-aging technology is now being worked on very seriously. Most of the current work is centered around Dr. Aubrey De Grey, a biomedical gerontologist based in Cambridge (England) who came up with an idea he called SENS, Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence which is associated with the Methuselah Foundation, a foundation for funding anti-aging research. (Note: I am not associated with either the SENS Foundation or the Methuselah Foundation). Dr. De Grey believes that he has found all of the causes of aging and that through research ways of reversing the damage resulting from those causes. Time will tell if SENS will produce the first generation of anti-aging technology. It may or may not, but it has been realized that anti-aging technology can be produced and that we aren't that far away from making it real.