Science is Gross (Sometimes)

Because of this obligation called "college" is over and has constricted my recreational time to the point where I couldn't completely read all those books I said I was, we're deviating from our regularly scheduled programming.
Instead of talking about reading a book, I'll talk about writing one.

I don't know if you watched the news today, but I saw this segment about this experiment that was done on mice, but is replicable in humans:
they took blood from younger mice, transfused it with the blood of older mice, and noted that the older mice were healthier, more active, and appeared smarter.
The anchor then turned to all the younger employees behind him and jokingly asked how many would be willing to sell their blood.
Quite a few didn't seem to have a problem with it.

Umm. . .

I have to admit that I would jokingly have answered that question with "How much are you offering?" but think about it.
That's downright creepy.
I heard about some baroness or something in . . . Russia, I think, who would kill her servants - typically younger, beautiful girls - and actually take a bath in their blood to stay young. She might have even imbibed their blood, which is a whole new level of evil and disgusting, but they say it worked, because she died at a pretty darn old age that she did not look.

Now think about this: what if this blood transfusion thing were to actually work on humans?
That would be - in a way - slavery; selling part of yourself to somebody else.
But staying younger for virtually forever . . .
Think "The Leech Woman" but less . . . awful.

Here's the plot, though - and this is not a manual for somebody to do this! Just sayin'.
(Hey, the government's acting like "1984" was a manual, so really.)
What if there was a couple who was afraid to die? They had lived their lives for themselves, and didn't have any kids, so they opened a home for troubled teens, made sure they were treated well . . . and were very healthy.
The kids start going missing, but since nobody misses the kids, they're written off as ungrateful runaways.
Now, what if this went on for a few decades? Would they be sick of living? Would they want to die? Would they be able to die naturally? Would it become an actual, physical and chemical addiction to young blood?

I know this sounds gruesome and kinda morbid, but really, of all the things that our technology is capable of nowadays, what is out of reach?
And more importantly, what's off-limits?

You know, "Frankenstein" was the forerunner to this in a lot of ways. It forced people to consider the personal responsibility that comes with scientific advancement.
Maybe it's time "Frankenstein" gets an upgrade.