The problem with wanting to reverse aging that no one talks about

It was quite unlike any other acceptance speech of the UEFA President's award. In a rather philosophical address before the Champion's League draw in Monaco, former soccer player and actor Eric Cantona claimed: "Soon the science will not only be able to slow down the aging of the cells, soon the science will fix the cells to the state, and so we become eternal." But what was he actually talking about and does it hold up? In the context, the statement seemed out of place, perhaps even slightly mad. There's pathos in seeing aged sportsmen too--once sublime athletes now reduced to a snail's pace and going gray.