Jonathan Weiner - Long For This World

Sam's obsession with not dying found immediate appeal in this book at Politics and Prose. It was a fun discussion from a science journalist about the real science of aging and the preventing of it. I added the book to my wishlist and will hopefully get around to buying it one of these days. He told the story of his main character, a kooky scientist from the UK who has some plausible theories about how to extend life.