Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death

10th Feb 2011; 18:00

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An obsession with the nature of death lies at the heart of the human experience, but have the technological advances and scientific discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries led us to believe we can somehow cheat it? 

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