Catherine Mayer is TIME’s Europe editor. She oversees the Europe, Middle East and Africa editions and is responsible for expanding and developing TIME’s international coverage. Mayer joined TIME as a senior editor in 2004 after a lengthy stint as a correspondent for Focus magazine, Germany’s leading newsweekly. She was president of the Foreign Press Association in London from June 2003 to June 2005. Her book Amortality: The Pleasures and Perils of Living Agelessly was published by Vermilion, an imprint of Random House, in 2011.
We Might Not Want Our Life Extended
What’s the point of living longer if we don’t live better?
