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Life as we know it seems to require death. For one thing, evolution wouldn't really work if everything survived forever.

But if the fact of eventual death appears to be inevitable for humans, some of the particular declines associated with aging may not be.

From KERA in Dallas, this is Think. I'm Chris Boyd. If we want to figure out how we might maintain healthy lives as long as possible, it's really useful to understand what tends to go so wrong with aging bodies so that they give out. And my guest has written a fascinating, counterintuitively hopeful book about just that.

Vanki Ramakrishnan shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for uncovering the structure of the ribosome. He runs a research lab at the MRC

laboratory of molecular biology in Cambridge, England, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

His book is called Why We Die, the New Science of Aging and the

Quest for Immortality. Thank you, welcome to think. Thank you for having me. You note that as the

only animals that we know have awareness of our own mortality, humans in every culture have come

up with like a series of strategies to ward off death. The philosopher Stephen Cave calls these plans A, B, and C.

What are the broad outlines of those plans?

Yeah.

So Stephen Cave proposed four plans.

And Plan A is simply to try not to die.

And Plan B is, well, you may die,

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