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The price of chasing immortality

The price of chasing immortality

Time Magazine - 03-Mar-2025

The quest to extend life is booming, but does our fear of death stop us from truly living?

NCOB seeks ethical solutions for building trust in engineering biology

NCOB seeks ethical solutions for building trust in engineering biology

Nuffield Council on Bioethics - 02-Jul-2024

Proposes ethical pathways for profit and public trust challenges

Billionaire Robert Miller may face charges if revived after cryonic preservation

Billionaire Robert Miller may face charges if revived after cryonic preservation

Independent - 31-May-2024

However, legal actions aim for prosecution before his death

New questions emerge about where and how to use brain tech safely and fairly

New questions emerge about where and how to use brain tech safely and fairly

Nuffield Council on Bioethics - 08-Feb-2024

The tech expands beyond medicine, demanding new oversight

Duo of world leading transhumanists argue for the scientific possibility of physical Immortality in their new book

Duo of world leading transhumanists argue for the scientific possibility of physical Immortality in their new book

Live Forever Club - 11-Jul-2023

Recommended by Aubrey de Grey, Ray Kurzweil, George Church, Michio Kaku and many more - they can't all be wrong!

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The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant

A philosophical parable about death written by Nick Bostrom

The Case Against Death

Amazon

Book written by philosopher Ingemar Patrick Linden

New Methuselahs: The Ethics of Life-Extension

Amazon

John Davis offers a philosophical discussion of the ethical issues raised by the possibility of human life extension

Eureka Conference 2025

10-Oct-2025

Conference organised by Milutin Stanisavljević Miles (Stuttgart, Germany)

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Ethics Blog Posts

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

They don’t want you to hear about the end of ageing
17-Nov-2016

They don’t want you to hear about the end of ageing

Many advertisers refused to take my money to promote the Live Forever Manual - raising awareness is an uphill battle!

Living Forever - an absolutely abhorrent aberration?
22-Apr-2015

Living Forever - an absolutely abhorrent aberration?

Feedback from a conversation with a totally normal friend (not a deathist)

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