‘When you kill it, it doesn’t die’: the jellyfish that has cracked the secret of immortality
www.theguardian.com
Turritopsis dohrnii has the ability to turn back into a baby jellyfish and grow up all over again

Inspired by this article about a jellyfish that doesn’t die of old age, injury or poor conditions, it just reverts back to a juvenile state and is reborn genetically identical. If you could be reborn, as you, would you want to?

Edit: Just the physical you, genetic and presumably epigenetic, no memory.

    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      I work with a guy who has a long Polish name that nobody can spell, and it makes me smile every time he’s referred to as John G.