Actually, human growth (including aging and eventually death) is caused by a very specific chemical made in the body. A great deal of it is created and released into the system in the first 4 years.. this is why humans grow more in this time than almost the entirety of the rest of their lives. Puberty triggers a second mass-production of this chemical, which is what causes the growth in every form.

There are rare conditions in which a child's system will trigger insanely uncontrollable production of this chemical and the child will age in several years what they should in 70 years. The body cannot handle this, it does not grow proportionately, and they basically look like 80 year olds the size of 8 year olds. They die quite quickly.

On the other side of the coin is an equally rare condition in which children's bodies cease production of this chemical after their initial formative years and grow excedingly slowly thereafter. I saw such a girl on a tv interview not too terribly long ago and she was absolutely beautiful. She was 14 years old but was physically 8 years old.. and wasn't exactly physically growing up at a normal rate, if you understand me.

The idea is to figure out what exactly it is that causes this second condition and learn how to replicate it. That is the end-game idea for this thread. If it could be replicated to create a virtual aging statis in teleiophiles that desire it, should it be allowed? I say yes.