Check at the economist article on the latest book by Kurzweil called “Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever” where he suggest that soon “death no longer need be a fact of life”.
-Rajan
Immortality is not a non-possibility
Seeking Better Explanations
mtrajan.com 
Great stuff! I’d like to invite you and your readers to the Methuselah Prize site (www.mprize.org) – we’re working on catalyzing technologies to help us fight aging, just as the XPrize has done for civilian space flight. Check us up and join in the conversation!