Comment by Koshkin

Anti-aging research has little, if anything, to do with "trying to live forever". It has more to do with "staying forever young", i.e., staying healthy and strong and good-looking until death. Aging increases the organism's fragility and makes it prone to getting ill, and trying to slow down this process is, of course, a meaningful and venerable goal. Living forever, on the other hand, is impossible in principle, unfortunately - for at least two reasons: the limited capacity of our brain and the mean time from birth to a fatal accident being around two hundred years.