{"id":47079,"date":"2022-04-25T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T05:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=47079"},"modified":"2022-04-25T00:15:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T05:15:18","slug":"why-do-billionaires-want-to-live-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=47079","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Billionaires Want to Live Forever?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Why is it that billionaires always seem to want to live forever? Why is it that the 1% of the 1% almost always seem to veer from their core businesses into attempts to prolong their lives indefinitely? Amazon\u2019s Jeff Bezos is invested in Altos Labs which is attempting a kind of \u201cbiological reprogramming\u201d to extend lifespans. Google\u2019s Sergey Brin and Larry Page were instrumental in launching a business called \u201cCalico\u201d which is carrying out studies that may eradicate all disease. PayPal\u2019s Peter Thiel is a big supporter of the Methuselah Mouse Prize foundation which means to dramatically improve health and longevity. Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin has decided it\u2019s likely that people born today will live to the age of 3,000 and is already participating in experimental treatments he believes may slow his body\u2019s aging.1<\/a><\/p>\n

Why is it that so many billionaires seem so intent on extending their lives beyond the promised threescore and ten? Could it be that all their wealth has made their lives so amazing that they simply can\u2019t bear the thought of dying? Could it be that their massive yachts, their luxury mansions, their ability to buy anything their hearts desire, has given them such<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why is it that billionaires always seem to want to live forever? Why is it that the 1% of the 1% almost always seem to veer from their core businesses into attempts to prolong their lives indefinitely? Amazon\u2019s Jeff Bezos is invested in Altos Labs which is attempting a kind of \u201cbiological reprogramming\u201d to extend lifespans. Google\u2019s Sergey Brin and Larry Page were instrumental in launching a business called \u201cCalico\u201d which is carrying out studies that may eradicate all disease. \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":47082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[303,2087,4526],"class_list":["post-47079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-articles","tag-heaven","tag-wealth","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/serge-kutuzov-nm_UwlzQe_Q-unsplash-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47084,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47079\/revisions\/47084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}