Abstract:
The anti-aging program, like other life extension programs, is a historical precipitation of a long process of technological conquering over death. In its horizon of expectations, there is not only the widening of the timespan between birth and death, but also the elimination of the experience of decay and loss of vitality throughout the life-course. But anti-aging also comprises a form of relationship with death: not as a final event, but as an object of consciousness, that is, as a presence in life. Anti-aging reconfigures the presence of death in life in two ways: first, it displaces death from the field of destiny to the field of human deliberation, and second, it identifies the human body as a barrier to the full realization of life and as an ultimate source of risk.
Palabras clave:
Anti-aging; Tecnología; Muerte; Existencia