High-Tech Daydreamers Investing in Immortality: "Mr. de Grey was not selling an afterlife or a metaphor. He is a geneticist at the University of Cambridge, in England, and his prophecy was straightforward if hard to believe: Getting old and dying are engineering problems. Aging can be reversed and death defeated. People already alive will live a thousand years or longer. "
After reading this story in the New York times I said, "the last time people lived a 1000 years we had a flood, so it must be about time to start a boat."
I'm sure the insurance actuaries guys are following this with great interest. Whole life takes on a whole new definition with 1000 yr lifespans!