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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

Futurists predict 1,000-year lifespans by 2050 through radical tech advances

Futurists predict 1,000-year lifespans by 2050 through radical tech advances

Popular Mechanics - 08-Aug-2025

Experts say AI, robotics, and genetics could make “practical immortality” possible

Inside Foresight: the NHS AI model stirring privacy debate

Inside Foresight: the NHS AI model stirring privacy debate

New Scientist - 07-May-2025

A powerful new health algorithm promises early disease prediction, but raises ethical alarms

Balancing the scales: ethics in the age of AI-driven healthcare

Balancing the scales: ethics in the age of AI-driven healthcare

Cureus - 06-May-2025

How AI is reshaping diagnosis and care while raising new ethical questions in healthcare

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?

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Ethics Resources

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Designer Evolution: A Transhumanist Manifesto

Amazon

A book about transhumanism written by Simon Young

Läkemedel mot Åldrande

Pharmaceuticals Against Aging, book written by Linus Petersson

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

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Ethics Blog Posts

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

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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