Tag Archives: Immortality

How Long Can We Achieve Youthfulness and Defy Death?

Outsmarting mortality makes for big business and bigger questions

In 2003, Zoltan Istvan almost tripped on a landmine in Vietnam working as a reporter for National Geographic. His brush with death convinced him to quit journalism and eventually devote his life to transhumanism or the belief that emerging technologies … Continue reading

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Author Jorge Luis Borges on Time and Death

The Argentinian writer believed that life and death are, perhaps, all a dream

Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges had an interesting perspective on time and death. He also had an amazing talent and tendency to nail a truth down in one to three sentences. So precise with words was Borges, that he managed … Continue reading

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”I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.”

-Woody Allen
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“To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.”

-Samuel Butler
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“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”

-Susan Ertz
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