Everyone wants to live forever. It’s a rare soul that would pass on the opportunity to extend their years and quality of life, and that is exactly what real estate developer Glenn Straub is banking on. After purchasing the bankrupt Revel Atlantic City for $82 million last month, Straub has revealed plans to turn the property into a casino and health facility. In addition to offering Atlantic City classics like baccarat and five-card-stud, the new resort will also offer medical treatments that include everything from plasma grafts to cryotherapy.
While luxurious beauty treatments have always been available to those willing to pay for them, for the most part they have been superficial—a nip here, a tuck there—but Straub is not offering just a youthful complexion, he’s promising youth itself. “I’ll extend your quality of life by an extra 20 years, guaranteed. If we don’t extend your life and you don’t feel more comfortable, don’t pay,” he told Bloomberg. “We can make you live to be a hundred years old. I don’t know if you want to live to be a hundred years old. But we can make you.”
Of course while the idea of making a few bets, strolling along the Boardwalk and adding a few years to your life sounds like a great weekend, there are those that see this as a possible liability. “For most of these treatments, the long-term effect is negligible or still unknown. Others can actively put patients’ lives at risk,” says Popular Science. But many of the methods Straub personally uses (and swears by). Even A-listers like Oprah, Kobe Bryant, Tiger Woods, Madonna, Rihanna and Cara Delevingne are patients of these and similar treatments.
Straub has yet to set an opening date for Revel and even ballpark estimates don’t expect to see it open until next year, but we can only imagine what it will be like when it does. Poker downstairs, immortality upstairs and a nightclub somewhere in the middle. Sounds fun.
