In his book God and the Philosophers, the Austrian American atheist philosopher Paul Edwards writes: When we die we do not return to the “bosom
Bertrand Russell once said that “most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.” One does not need to look any further
Some contemporary atheists and secular humanists do not stop at debunking the idea of God but seem to think that making a persuasive case against
One question that is going to be of great interest is how aging baby boomers will confront aging and death. Where previous generations have found
When I was in New Zealand in 1999, CI Member Cam Christie told me that one of his co-workers was against cryonics because she was
It’s difficult to follow up a best-selling book about the cultural history of the penis, but David M. Friedman has a knack for engaging readers
In 2003 George Hart published an article called “The Immortal’s Dilemma: Decontructing Eternal Life” , making a secular case against immortality. Hart mainly uses logical
If immortality means a zero chance of death, it is doubtful whether mankind (or any lifeform) will ever achieve this. Nevertheless, advocates for extending the
Now online is Mike Perry’s article “Historical Steps Toward the Scientific Conquest of Death.” This article was previously published in 2003 in Physical Immortality, a
Immortality as a zero probability of information-theoretic death may not be possible or realistic. A more practical (and less controversial) objective of radical life extension