Another link to check out

This one: http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/sens/index.html - belongs to a fellow with a plan "for curing human aging" taking an engineering approach to the problem.

Curious. I think rather than having people live to 5000 years old, it would be more interesting and helpful to have the people who live to 120 do so at the fitness level of say, a 40-something year old.