WHY WE DIE
The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality
by Venki Ramakrishnan
HODDER & STOUGHTON
₹699; 320 pages
In the third century BCE, Emperor Qin Shi Huang of China, he of the terracotta army fame, was obsessed with immortality. He sent his men all across the country to look for the “elixir of life”. Unfortunately, one such elixir had too much mercury and caused his death. Fast forward to the 21st century and we now have tech billionaires having the same obsession with eternal life.
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