Extreme Hubris is Presumption

Prologue

   In this piece we will be talking of man's physical death, which is the cessation of breath and brain activity. This is also the meaning of what God said to Adam and Eve that they will die if they eat or even touch the forbidden tree.
   That they did not die immediately on eating of the tree is of no matter. For they both died eventually. By extension, i.e., genetically, all men are supposed to die.

Satan Contradicts God

Genesis 3:1-7 ESV

   Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made.
He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said,‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
   So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

Google Tackles Death

Humans have aspired to immortality since, well, forever. Google’s push into the science of aging is the latest effort at significantly extending our lifespan. Its new company, called Calico, is likely the most serious such attempt ever. It may even be big business.

Some of the earliest efforts at curing mortality occurred as far back as 2,500 B.C., when King Gilgamesh, in what’s now modern-day Iraq, believed a magic plant would grant him everlasting life. According to legend, he managed to find the plant in question, only for it to be eaten by a snake as he slept. Around the same time, Indian Vedas concocted a potion they named soma, also believed to ensure immortality. (Neither worked.)

By medieval times, alchemy’s popularity led some to believe that base metals could be turned into immortality elixirs. Around the 13th century, philosopher Roger Bacon wrote The Cure of Old Age and Preservation of Youth and argued that aging is essentially something that can be fixed. He believed that old age was simply the result of an unhealthy lifestyle. So the alchemist began prescribing medicines he believed would boost patients’ health, like powders made from gold and pearl. He suggested eating vipers because they shed their skins, possibly a sign of immortality. He told men that they should breathe in the breath of virgin girls. (None of it worked.)

In the late 1700s, Scotsman James Graham claimed that Londoners could live to 150 by stopping by his clinic and persuading them to rub themselves with balsam and wash their genitals in champagne. He created a horse-hair bed that gave its users an electric shock. By the late 1800s, Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard, a French physician, suggested ingesting the sex glands of guinea pigs and dogs. (Again, no results.)

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Epilogue

Curing mortality is a presumption - something that men should avoid in indulging. A few men do this because of ignorance or plain defiance of what we have seen, observed and known as facts for centuries.

Indeed, it is an activity of extreme hubris that is taken straight from the devil's playbook. 

Ultimately, it is an antichrist viewpoint for the fact it contradicts what the Scripture's message about immorality, i.e., eternal life.

What's eternal life? Eternal life is a gift of God, which is given upon resurrection from death of those who believe.