There is a long narrative, musings on Immortality. One of the oldest stories, the Epic of Gilgamesh, is a quest to restore the life of a friend that had died. The Greeks, very much against immortality, the Christians and the immortality of the soul in the afterlife. The Alchemists founded the field of chemistry and modern pharmacology. Modern science is only continuing the quest.

In the modern take on the subject, we are researching health from the perspective of age. "Age related disease" and preventing it. Below is a list of papers on the subject.

• The Science of Immortality - Professor Michael J. Cholbi
• Ageing and immortality - Michael R. Rose and Laurence D. Mueller
• Mortality and immortality at the cellular level. A review - L Hayflick
• Why Immortality is Not So Bad - John Martin Fischer
• The illusion of cell immortality - L Hayflick
• Immortality, Identity, and Desirability - Roman Altshuler
• The Egyptian Conception of Immortality - Reisner
• Intimations of Immortality - The Ethics and Justice of Life-Extending Therapies - John Harris
• A Hint of Immortality - Klaus Wilhelm
• Stem cells ageing and the quest for immortality - Thomas A. Rando