
The Price of Forever

A morbidly fascinated chronicle of the extreme, transgressive things the ultra-rich do to cheat death — with a doctor's reality check on every one. Spectacle, not a how-to.
A startup in California was charging $8,000 to infuse you with a teenager's blood plasma. They called it a clinical trial. No control group, no blinding, no randomization. The FDA shut them down in 20…