The only proven remedy for the elimination of old age is a young death.  If there were any other way, certainly the very rich would not be dying.  

It's bad enough to be deteriorating like a spawing salmon - but to realize just before you die that you have given your life savings to a low life snake oil merchant has to be the ultimate bad joke.

The sickness called old age may be cured some day - however, that day is a long way off.

Brain damage is not aging, nor is aging brain damage. This is an oversimplification of the human condition. Those who say that aging is wonderful do not imply that one of its consequent symptoms, namely damage to the brain and the body as a whole, is also wonderful. The wonder comes from the experience of having lived the life one has lived.

I find it is interesting that you say "manufacturing process" in referring to advances in medical and other life sciences. For this seems to imply that we humans are production units coming off an assembly line. Does that not strike you as question begging with regards to transhumanism? I would also question what is it precisely that you find troubling about aging and death. Is it the actual process, or is it the symptoms? Is it simply death, or death in agony in particular? Specifically with regards to brain damage that is incurred through the process of aging, would you be opposed to aging if technology could guarantee no deterioration of brain function over time? Or would this not be enough?

I would view age related diseases, such as "Alzheimer's", as a form of slowly accruing brain damage. You have to also realize that, contrary to the outdated educational standard in our country, our brain cells do split at a progressively slower rate during the aging process (as opposed to stopping altogether, as explained in the "just say no" propagandic years). Neural networks begin to deplete as they are not developed to replace themselves as quickly due to our bodies need for efficiency. This is something we have already begun to overcome. We have managed to utilize brain implants to help paraplegics walk again. When we further develope storage capacity and integrate with even more compatible bio-wet-wire technology, we'll have a better progression for augmenting intellectual capabilities. The real trick is going to replacing and upgrading bio-materials in our cerebrums at an appropriate rate, so as not to disturb our synaptic transmitter/nitric-oxide signatures. This is how we keep our conscious identity. I really shouldn't be giving too much away. But, I'm just dying from the anguish of how slow we are progressing. Too many people make negative comments without having any significant current knowledge of the material in discussion. Homework is not a bad thing! Neither is hope.

@Dmitri --

I am living with a family member who has Alzheimer's and believe me when I say that for him, aging is brain damage. The tragedy of his condition is exactly that he is being slowly robbed of, "The wonder [that] comes from the experience of having lived the life one has lived."

I realize that Alzheimer's and aging are not the same thing. Even so, the fact remains that for a huge number of people the last years of their lives are years of brutal pain and often humiliation. I find it impossible to see how anybody who has witnessed the slow physical and mental degeneration of a loved one could not support work towards rejuvenation therapies.

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