How To Live Forever….The Documentary (trailer)

Baby boomers are getting old quickly, and while all of them have to struggle to deal with that, at least one has made a movie about it. How To Live Forever is 54 year old Mark Wexler's latest documentary venture, focusing on the scientific and spiritual work surrounding humanity's pursuit of longevity. In his personal journey to understand how to fight or accept aging Wexler talks with Ray Kurzweil, Aubrey de Grey, Jack LaLanne, and many others. Catch a peek at the film in the trailer and clips below. Recently debuted in New York and Los Angeles, How To Live Forever is touring through the US and coming to a city near you. I had a brief chat with Wexler and the writer-director believes that "it's very likely in the next 20-30 years that there we'll be able to extend one's life dramatically." Perhaps How To Live Forever will help push mainstream culture to consider the possibilities and consequences of that radical lifespan extension before it arrives.

While there are many clips of the documentary available on the YouTube channel for the production company (Wexler's World), two stand out as my clear favorites. The first is a brief look at Buster Martin, who before his death was Britain's oldest working man at a ripe age of 101. Smoking fags, drinking pints, and running marathons - you gotta love this guy:

But How To Live Forever is about more than cute moments with geriatric badasses, it's also an exploration of the science and debate surrounding the possibilities of immortality. In the following clip we get a taste of that debate as Wexler bounces back and forth between the opinions of Aubrey de Grey and Sherwin B. Nuland - two outspoken scientists in the field of health and longevity.