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We lack comprehensive understanding of the process, as should be expected. Much research is ongoing that will undoubtedly suddenly transform that present certainty that it's never gonna work into unwarranted confidence that it's trivial to achieve, and exactly the solution to the problem.

Frankly, I expect there are myriad means of preventing, reversing, and obviating aging, and even death itself. Until we have a bit of room to roam in, they are probably unwise to effect, and absent comprehension of currently opaque sociohistory and ecosystemic interoperability, it's definitely foolish.