Ilia Stambler, an historian of life-extensionism at Bar Ilan University and an activist in the
Israeli Transhumanist community:

I am excited and honored to be at the world’s second demonstration for radical life- extension… It is possible and necessary to fight death. Death is not written in stone, and death from aging, as death from any other cause, is not written in stone, but is subject to intervention. … As one researcher of aging said, “Almost everyone thinks we need the battleships and almost no one thinks we need the old men.” Here we demonstrate against this attitude. Here we pronounce the ideal of radical life extension.”