Do not age anymore, never die … from the epic of Gilgamesh, Mesopotamian epic story over three thousand years old, to the alchemists of the European Middle Ages via Qin Shi Huang, First Emperor of China (in IIIe century BC. AD), who summoned his administration to find him a remedy against death, the quest for immortality, reflecting the anxieties of humanity in the face of its finitude, crosses the great civilizations. And she still fascinates so much.
Today it is carried by the transhumanism, this current of thought born in the middle of the XXe century, according to which technologies can push the limits of the human body. It is popularized by billionaires from Silicon Valley, cantors of “techno-optimism”, and biohackers, who test a panoply of anti-ia therapies, some of which recall, strangely, those formerly experienced, in vain.
In the daily life The friend of the peoplean article thus praised, in 1929, the virtues of ozone. “We can call it the air of youth”wrote the newspaper. Five years earlier, The little newspaper illustratedweekly supplement of the conservative daily The Little Journalhighlighted “Blood exchanges” Practiced by Doctor Hélan Jaworski with a rich clientele in search of immortality.
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