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Elon Musk on Longevity and Dementia

Elon Musk's comments on longevity, dementia, and his preference for death over living with dementia, as well as his views on the solvability of longevity as an engineering problem.

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Jan 13, 2026
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What did Elon Musk say in full during the Peter Diamandis podcast about longevity and dementia, and how have commentators interpreted those remarks?

Elon Musk told Peter Diamandis in a January podcast that he would "prefer to be dead" rather than live to 100 with dementia and framed longevity or "semi‑immortality" as an "extremely solvable problem...