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Summary:

• Aubrey de Grey is odd, but very charming and really, really smart;
• He wants to live a very, very long time;
• He's smart enough to have figured out the seven feats of bio-engineering that need to be accomplished in order to prolong human life indefinitely (barring accidents, murders, etc.);
• The article's author, Sherwin Neuland, thinks de Grey is almost completely isolated from the real world as far as biological matters are concerned, and that, even if de Grey's seven problems could be solved, the indefinite prolongation of human life wouldn't be a good thing either for individuals or for the species.

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The article's author, Sherwin Neuland, thinks...

Oops...Nuland, not Neuland.

[Old Professer]

The article's author, Sherwin Neuland, thinks de Grey is almost completely isolated from the real world as far as biological matters are concerned, and that, even if de Grey's seven problems could be solved, the indefinite prolongation of human life wouldn't be a good thing either for individuals or for the species.

Your statement seems to be somewhat supported by this early quote from Nuland:

I should declare here that I have no desire to live beyond the life span that nature has granted to our species. For reasons that are pragmatic, scientific, demographic, economic, political, social, emotional, and secularly spiritual, I am committed to the notion that both individual fulfillment and the ecological balance of life on this planet are best served by dying when our inherent biology decrees that we do.

And here:

If we are to be destroyed, I am now convinced that it will not be a neutral or malevolent force that will do us in, but one that is benevolent in the extreme, one whose only motivation is to improve us and better our civilization. If we are ever immolated, it will be by the efforts of well-meaning scientists who are convinced that they have our best interests at heart.

[EvaClement]

The summary helps.

Thanks.