Life extension terminology
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Life extension terminology covers the broad range of terms that may be used to discuss a range of life extension technologies in different contexts.
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Subculture terms
Such terms have limited utility outside such a context.
Transhumanist
A common transhumanist context will focus on radical modification technologies both current, emerging and hypothetical. These may include:
Life extension
The life extension and it followers often use enthusiastic jargon relatively inaccessible to the mainstream.
Scientific terms
- Senescence research
- Biogerontological research
- Rejuvenation research or Rejuveneering[1], a term coined by Aubrey de Grey
- Regenerative Medicine[2]
- Aging Research (conservative audience)
- Longevity Research (life extensionist audience)
- Aging and Longevity Research (mixed audience)
- Anti-aging
- Geroscience[3]
Mainstream terms
- Increase people's healthspan - a term adopted by the Global Heathspan Policy Institute
- 'Mitigate the underlying causes of disease', 'targeting ageing' or 'ageing as a disability' - softer versions of aging as a disease
- Longevity dividend - the idea quantifying the multiple social and economic benefits of longer lives
- Indefinite life extension
- Live happily and healthily indefinitely - Positive life extension
The International Society on Aging and Disease uses the slogan:
Promoting biomedical research of ageing and ageing-related diseases to improve health and longevity of the elderly population[4]