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History of the Self: Aging

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This chapter delves into humanity's long-standing obsession with achieving eternal life, featuring historical figures like Qin Shi Huang and legends such as the Fountain of Youth. It chronicles the extremes people have gone to in their pursuit of immortality and culminates with a 20th-century claim of discovering the key to everlasting life.

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