Immortality manual for beginners. From alchemy before avatars

Do you want to outwit death?
If the answer is yes, then right now in your hands the right thing is a guide to immortality! This book will tell what achievements people were capable of in an effort to gain eternal life ... or how crazy dreamers found death in barren searches.
"Over the past two centuries, life expectancy has more than doubled. A person born at the beginning of the 19th century could barely hope to cross a 35-year-old line, and today the average life expectancy in a developed country is 78 years. However, to extend life for several decades - this is where it went. But live forever? ..
In general, get comfortable and listen to how humanity tried (and continues to try) to reveal the secret of immortality. "
For secondary and senior school age