Live Forever or Die Trying.

AuthorBailey, Ronald
PositionBriefly Noted - The Immortalists - Brief article

The Immortalists, a genial documentary now making the film-festival rounds, reveals the scientific passions and private lives of two leading anti-aging researchers, Aubrey de Grey and Bill Andrews.

Andrews is the CEO of Sierra Sciences, whose slogan is "Cure aging or die trying." De Grey is the founder of Methuselah Foundation and the SENS Research Foundation. "The first person to live to 1,000 might be 60 already," de Grey said in 2004. Straight-arrow Andrews is an ultra-marathoner; luxuriantly bearded de Grey is rarely seen without a pint of stout. Shot over two years, the film shows both men...

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