is it wise to seek to live forever? stephen cave, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it is a great pleasure. you believe our human awareness of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they would not be around as if they did not. the mountain did not care about surviving would not pass on genes. we come for from a long line of creatures that determined to keep going but we have these big brands that is part of our survival mechanism allow us to see the future, to generalise and we are conscious of ourselves as individuals and that means we are conscious of our own death and out of all the billions of creatures on earth, very few creatures have to live with that terrible awareness that all of their efforts will come to nothing safe we look back to human history, we see humanity struggling to make sense of this. some of the earliest archaeological evidence we find of human development is su
voice-over: this is bbc news. we ll have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. welcome to hardtalk, i am stephen sackur. one of the key drivers throughout history has been knowledge of our own mortality. from childhood each of us knows we will die. religion, philosophy and science wrestle with that fact and have in different ways and braced the quest for immortality. my guess today, stephen cave director of university of cambridge institute for technology and humanity is at the centre of a growing debate about the merits of extending human longevity.
voice-over: this is bbc news. we ll have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. welcome to hardtalk, i am stephen sackur. 0ne welcome to hardtalk, i am stephen sackur. one of the key drivers throughout history has been knowledge of our own mortality. from childhood each of us knows we will die. religion, philosophy and science wrestle with that fact and have in different ways and braced the quest for immortality. my guess today, stephen cave director of university of cambridge institute for technology and humanity is at the centre of a growing debate about the merits of extending human longevity.