Throughout history, blood has been a popular anti-aging remedy. In 1492, the moribund Pope Innocent VIII was injected with the blood of children, putting into practice the Italian polymath Marsilio Ficino’s recommendation that the elderly suck the blood of the young “like leeches” to turn back their biological clock.
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The long and gruesome history of people trying to live forever (www.yahoo.com)
freakofnature
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Interesting, Fink speaks of immortality being the natural state of affairs, sounds a lot like the garden of Eden…
Wow! I never heard of Emperor Qin being so scared of death that you couldn’t even say the word to his face. But I remember learning in school about how everyone in China celebrated his death.
It always seems to involve taking away someone else’s life essence or youth, a form of murder.
Delusional