Comments on: Who Wants (you) to Live Forever?

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:05:31 +0000

Well this is less than helpful

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7754644.stm

Still, anti-oxidants always seemed too easy anyway

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:27:42 +0000

I’d recommend reading Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan for one take on the “immortal” lifestyle. Seems more likely than Heinlein’s take on it.

By: HeresyBob

HeresyBob — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:44:47 +0000

My response to the article and Kass in general.

By: Heresy.com » Leon Kass, Bioethics, Artificial Restrictions on Technology and the Future

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:43:43 +0000

[...] Recently, Grinding.be posted a response to a Daily Galaxy’s longevity articles’ counterpoint by Bioethicist Leon Kass, and the cultural barriers he’s creating to longevity. [...]

By: m1k3y

m1k3y — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:20:18 +0000

meanwhile, I need to get me some Astragalus

By: m1k3y

m1k3y — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:46:58 +0000

Leon Kass - Enemy of the Future. Let's not forget the great Neo-Con philopsher Francis Fukuyama and his masterwork Our PostHuman Future.

By: KBlack

KBlack — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:20:25 +0000

Basically, people who think that living forever would get sad and boring are saying “We don’t want to have it, so you can’t have it”. how immature.

But on the other hand, having people who could live, say, twice longer than everyone else (mostly rich people I guess) would indeed bring along a ton of problems. Some powerful people already don’t care about human life, imagine how they would care about non-prolonged human life…