La fantasía transhumanista de un humano sin vejez. Tópicos de la bioética personalista ontológica

Abstract

In this paper I propose to analyze the issue of old age, especially from the transhumanist and posthumanist perspective, which through postulates such as eternal youth come to imagine in the near future the possibility of suppressing the old age phase of biological life. It is my purpose to clarify the scope of medical biotechnology for this purpose and, finally, to discuss whether the consequence would lead us to ask ourselves what it means to be human from this perspective. A specific critique from Ontologically Grounded Personalist Bioethics raises its voice to make a strict defense of the totality of the person in the different stages of his or her life and absolute respect for dignity in old age.