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Ethics

What are the consequences of radical life extension?

Should we attempt to live forever?

More questions than answers - but more information coming soon.

Ethics News

Love, loss and liquid nitrogen: China’s first cryonics case sparks moral debate

Love, loss and liquid nitrogen: China’s first cryonics case sparks moral debate

BBC - 18-Nov-2025

A widower’s new relationship after cryopreserving his wife ignites a fierce ethical debate in China

Scotland launches landmark trial of free weight-loss jabs

Scotland launches landmark trial of free weight-loss jabs

BBC - 01-Nov-2025

5,000 deprived Scots to trial new obesity drugs in Glasgow

UK sees record rise in elderly population as male longevity increases

UK sees record rise in elderly population as male longevity increases

Independent - 21-Oct-2025

Men aged 90+ in the UK have more than doubled since 2004, boosting the total elderly population

Growing apart while growing old: How education shapes biological ageing

Growing apart while growing old: How education shapes biological ageing

Live Forever Club - 17-Sep-2025

Those with more education often live healthier and longer lives

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Ethics Resources

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Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto

Amazon

A book about transhumanism written by Simon Young

Aging While Black

Amazon

A Radical Reimagining of Aging and Race in America written by Raymond A. Jetson

LEVITY Podcast

Ageing Science and radical life extension podcast with Peter Ottsjö and Ingemar Patrick Linden

The fountain of youth: cultural, scientific, and ethical perspectives on a biomedical goal

Amazon

This book was assembled to review the history of the quest for extended and eternal life, edited by Stephen G. Post

Patrick Linden: Life is good; death is bad

Patrick Linden challenges the acceptance of death as natural

Eureka Conference 2025 *POSTPONED*

10-Oct-2025

Conference organised by Milutin Stanisavljević Miles (Stuttgart, Germany)

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Ethics Blog Posts

Best Longevity Quotes of 2024
17-Dec-2024

Best Longevity Quotes of 2024

Top 5 quotes about life extension and its opposite… death

Impli Implantables Presents at London Futurists
26-Feb-2020

Impli Implantables Presents at London Futurists

Anna Luisa Schaffgotsch talked about the history and future in implant technology

Ad Vitam Review (TV series)
20-Jan-2020

Ad Vitam Review (TV series)

This intriguing French thriller received little attention in the UK, but is well worth a watch

Suicide Club by Rachel Heng - Book Review
04-Jan-2019

Suicide Club by Rachel Heng - Book Review

In the book, the vision of biological immortality has become reality, but has not yet fully arrived

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Topics covered in this page:
Death, Equality in Longevity, Ethics, Public Attitudes