By Marcelo Gleiser — 2014
However painful death is, to many people immortality is not any better. Why would someone immortal want to live? Where would his or her drive come from?
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Telomeres ordinarily shrink by 1% annually, from birth to death. The telomeres of people with unhealthy habits have much faster shrinkage, while those of people with the best habits and genes shrink at a slower rate, thus enabling such people to live to approximately 100 years.