Matthew Herper  Matthew Herper, Forbes Staff   7/10/2006 @
6:15PM  Pay Death To Go Away  Nobody wants to die–but what if
you could pay the piper with cash, instead of your mortal soul?
People have always been willing to spend money to try to pay off
the Grim Reaper. But modern would-be immortals know that old-
fashioned cure-alls, like the ground mummy dust to which hopeful
aristocrats turned in medieval times, were only so much
quackery. And modern medicine has done a great job of extending
our lives already. In the past 100 years, the human life span
has increased 65%, to 78 years.  Click here for five ways to buy
your way out of death.  But those who want to cheat the fates
still have some extreme options open to them. Life-extension
guru Roy Wolford, whose belief that calorie restriction could
keep him alive longer, embraced a minimalist diet that caused
his weight to plummet to a mere 130 pounds. (He succumbed to Lou
Gehrig’s disease at age 79.)  Science has also been on the trail
of myriad age-defying d