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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

Women’s life expectancy rebounds, men still lag after covid

Women’s life expectancy rebounds, men still lag after covid

Independent - 11-Dec-2025

Girls born in 2022–24 can expect to live 83 years, while boys’ life expectancy remains lower

Living to 150: the promise and perils of extreme longevity

Living to 150: the promise and perils of extreme longevity

Psychology Today - 01-Dec-2025

Radical life extension could reshape work, family, society—and our sense of meaning

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

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Ethics Resources

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Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto

Amazon

A book about transhumanism written by Simon Young

Grave Talk

Amazon

A bitter sweet comedy about dealing with loss, and what comes next, written by Nick Spalding

Läkemedel mot Åldrande

Pharmaceuticals Against Aging, book written by Linus Petersson

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

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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