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How can I live forever?

From Immortal Life, will indefinite life extension arrive in 20 years, 50 years, never?; and in the future, with immortality, will there still be children? UC Riverside philosophy professor John Martin Fischer has received a $5-million grant to study immortality, but don't expect any ghost hunting or seances. How humans will respond to immortality: Austin Considine interviews John Fischer. How can I live forever? Gennady Stolyarov on what does and does not preserve the self. To attain immortality, humanity must become an emotionally honest species. Will “meatbag” bodies ever be immortal? Franco Cortese on longer life vs. unlimited life. Franco Cortese on immortality: Bio or cyber, does it matter? Killing deathist cliches: “Death gives meaning to life” is meaningless. Life, why bother? Rhys Southan reviews David Benatar’s Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence.