Aubrey de Grey is a leading geneticist and gerontologist whose life's work is to defeat biological aging. He contends, however, that there is a major barrier that keeps the scientific community as a whole from rationally investigating the prevention of aging and death: that is, the cultural tradition that death is not like a disease and thus shouldn't be "fixed", and that it is even a good thing. Advocates and skeptics alike are welcome to join Dr. de Grey for a talk about how he is investigating the development of medical treatments that repair the body faster than it breaks down, and, were that to succeed, about how we as a species might deal with the consequences of biological immortality. For more information about Dr. de Grey's research and philosophy, see his interview on the Colbert Report, his TED Talk, and this Technology Review Article.