Shekhar Natarajan

And I was telling him, sorry, Jim, I couldn't meet you.

I've been going through a lot of personal trauma.

In a sense, my father-in-law passed away.

and then my mother passed away and then right before I left my father grew up with his uncle and like they're siblings like so my dad's cousin's husband passed away and so there's a lot of like people passing away right and I said I started explaining to him like you know like this is so like

like painful like you know you just see all the people that you like loved and like you know you want them to be part of your life and they're just all passing away he said like you know there comes a time in everyone's life few times in your life like when you're like probably 30 40s like your parents pass away and all of the people around them pass away then when you get to 70 75 like all of your friends pass away and so he was relating the story of how lonely he is

at his age right now.

So this is not an uncommon thing, by the way.

At what point in time would you start regretting being alive?

It's a legitimate question, but I think the point of these breakthroughs in longevity happening is that a lot of people would opt in it.

So it's not like just me.

But I think a lot of people would.

I think a lot of people would.

And knowing that those that don't chose not to would make me grieve them less because it wouldn't be the tragedy of life that took them away.

I'm like, oh, that's what they chose.

We are all assuming the fact that the economic reality of those people is in sync with their longevity experiences.

Like I come from slums in India.

I went back to the slums.

I go back to that all the time, whenever I visit.

Just to go back and see, to be grateful for where I came and how long I've come.

There are still many people who can't afford a proper burial, a funeral.