Prologue: Never say die -- Part one: Need. The big wait ; Boomers, breakthroughs, and fountains of youth ; The drive to survive ; Drool cups and name tags -- Part two: Will. Calico ; The dinner ; Levinson ; Kurzweil ; Venter ; A life worth living -- Part three: Resources. The human genome ; The acceleration of acceleration ; Life everlasting ; Don't f*ck up ; Cage match ; First principles ; Human Longevity, Inc. -- Part four: Success. Cheating death ; Methuselahs ; The stars were remarkable ; Here be dragons ; Everyone has seen the ads ; Wobbling Weebles ; Revolutionizing medicine ; Super cells ; The seed of singularity ; The new oracles ; Would it all work? ; Plan A ; Unbounding the future -- Epilogue: The end of the end.