In addition to our film, Gitcoin is also hosting several different longevity projects via Lifespan.io / Lifespan Extension Advocacy Foundation, all of which you can support by clicking below

Projects put forth by the Lifespan Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF) — aka Lifespan.io — and projects fiscally sponsored by LEAF.

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Good news, everyone! We’ve been selected for a Gitcoin grant partnership to help democratize and incentivize future funding for our upcoming feature-length film’s development.

Gitcoin grants operate with crypto under a system known as “Quadratic Funding.” In other words, amounts are important, but the number of people donating also helps tremendously by boosting matching funds from a pre-established pool. So even small donation amounts can be hugely helpful. Therefore, any donation we receive from you will then be matched at an ever-increasing amount with each new donation.

We’re very excited to see where this takes us and if you’d like to contribute to the financing with more bang for your buck, check out the link below and start donating!

“The Last Generation to Die” is a cinematic quality full feature film on longevity. It’s a drama set in the future that examines the estranged relationship of two generations on the cusp of the end of aging and the ultimate merging of science and nature that will usher humanity into the next stage of evolution.

Logline: In a near future when age reversal therapies are on the cusp of becoming reality, a scientist tries to save her father from natural death.

“The Last Generation to Die” began its life as a staff-picked, 393% funded Kickstarter short film. We’re extending that life as a full feature length film. The short film was in a variety of festivals, garnering excellent reviews, and serves as a proof-of-concept for the full length feature film.

If you needed a heart transplant or suffered from cardiovascular disease, would you consider replacing your biological heart for an artificial one? How many of you with healthy hearts would want the transplant?

varying in age between 18 and 88, only 33% of them said they would be willing to take a pill that allowed them to stay alive at their current age.

If you were asked to participate in this survey, would you be willing to take an immortality pill? Would it matter what age you were before taking it?

In The Last Generation to Die, we explore the difficult conversation of what is to be done for the elderly who might miss out on the benefits of enhanced longevity. But if these companies somehow achieved their goal, however farfetched, that conversation would become moot.

Would you want to resurrect a lost loved one if given the opportunity?

Biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey, who’s Chief Science Officer of the SENS Research Foundation, is now predicting a 50% chance that people will begin retaining their youthful state via advanced science and technologies by the year 2036.

This is roughly around the same timeline that The Last Generation to Die is based on. Nailed it (hopefully)!

who’s Chief Science Officer of the SENS Research Foundation, is now predicting a 50% chance that people will begin retaining their youthful state via advanced science and technologies by the year 2036.

This is roughly around the same timeline that The Last Generation to Die is based on. Nailed it (hopefully)!

A huge shout-out to LessWrong for this fantastic write-up on the science of anti-aging research:

We join them in their call-to-action…

“For those wanting to help aging be solved in our lifetime so we can avoid being the last generation to die, consider taking the following actions:

• Sharing this post with others.
• Joining the Longevity subreddit or the Lifespan Discord server to plug in to longevity channels…

• Donating to the SENS Research Foundation.”

A few years ago, popular YouTuber Life Noggin published a video titled “WHY DO WE DIE?” In this video, he briefly goes into the science behind the gradual cellular degradation of the biological substrate, which causes all known side-effects associated with aging. At the end of the video, however, he revealed that he’d much rather “live forever” than die.

As a result, his subscribers, which is nearly at 2.9 million, took to the comments section to overwhelmingly declare similar hopes. Not everyone was convinced, however.

As we continue searching for the cure to aging, we’ll need to better inform the public that we’ve no intention of dictating how long they’re to live and when they’re to die.