Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever
Directed by Chris Smith
Written by Chris Smith
Starring Bryan Johnson
Release Date January 1st, 2025
Published January 3rd, 2025
Does the reality of death make life more meaningful? Does the notion of an ending to life make what you do while living matter more? I thought about these questions a lot while watching the new Netflix documentary Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever. The documentary examines the story of former Tech CEO and multi-millionaire, Bryan Johnson. After spending years on the grind to build his company Braintree into a major player in online payment technology, Johnson sold the company and dedicated himself to trying to live forever.
Bryan Johnson exists at the intersection of legitimate breakthroughs in aging science and being a con-man or grifter who takes advantage of vulnerable, frightened people desperate for the secret to not getting old. As the documentary tracks Johnson’s journey from deeply depressed grindset-mindset tech-bro to a man who claims to no longer use his ‘mind’ and is thus a functioning automaton guinea pig, we really cannot tell which side of the grifter-scientific pioneer fence Johnson falls on.
Find my full length review at Longevity.Media, linked here.
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