Proč umíráme - Nová věda o stárnutí a hledání nesmrtelnosti – Ramakrishan Venki (2025)

A fascinating journey through the biology of life and death.

Death awaits everyone and everything. It is an inevitable natural process. The awareness of our own end and the end of all our loved ones is one of the most fundamental human experiences — and one of the most terrifying. It is not just death itself that evokes horror, but its inevitability and irreversibility. Humanity has therefore sought ways to cope with this awareness and to outsmart aging and death since time immemorial. Especially in recent years, biology has made tremendous strides in the study of longevity, and an urgent question is coming to the forefront: Do we have to die? Biologist and Nobel Prize-winning chemist Venki Ramakrishnan takes this question seriously and takes readers on a thrilling journey through the biology of aging, disease, and dying. He explores the efforts toward immortality and their scientific and ethical limits. And he answers another, perhaps more important question: Why do we die?

From a Nobel Prize winner.