SCENE + HEARD: Daily Post Is Getting Old a Thing of the Past? By Staff Thursday, February 11, 2021 1:11 PM Aubrey de Grey, a biomedical gerontologist, believes that the first person who will live to be 1,000 years old has already been born. Is aging becoming a thing of the past, and is human immortality something we even want to achieve? Head over to WebMD for a deeper dive into why some researchers believe immortality is within grasp.