# Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever Review
In the documentary Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever, we follow tech millionaire Bryan Johnson, who is willing and able to do anything to slow down the aging process and extend his life beyond all the known medical limits. This is a fascinating look at what one person who has the money, resources, and time can do if they devote their entire life to extending it. To say that any of us would do this just to live longer is asking a lot. Bryan doesn’t have a life other than interacting with his assistant and his soon-to-be college son. Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever Now playing on [Afdah Movies](https://afdah.live/).

Bryan is relentless in his daily life, taking a mountain of pills, working out, eating vegetarian, and undergoing procedures that most doctors feel are either unnecessary or dangerous. I lost count of how many times a procedure was brought up that was tested on mice/rats but hasn’t been tested on humans. Bryan even flies to Honduras to get gene therapy. This is a therapy that has a ‘kill switch’ that can ‘shut down the gene’ if things go wrong. Isn’t this almost what every villain has done in comic books since the ‘60s? There is an interesting underlying factor in all this: Bryan was brought up Mormon and has cut ties with most of his family because of leaving the religion. Bryan hints he was an unhappy child/adult and seems to point to his religious upbringing and beliefs (he has kids and an ex-wife that he hasn’t seen since he left the church).

Second is Bryan’s relationship with his son (who is about to go to college). While I love he has grown close to his son and wants to make up for lost time, I didn’t like that he allowed his young high school senior to do a bunch of Bryan’s lifestyle choices, including plasma trading. While you may learn a thing or two about aging and lifestyle, and it’s no accident that Netflix premiered this on New Year’s Day, a day when people try to go on self-improvement regimens, you may be like me and be a little creeped out by a man who wants to live as long as he can while not living a life.