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The business of living forever

Christopher Tollefsen (South Carolina): Does God Intend Death? Attila Tanyi (Konstanz) and Karl Karlander (Stockholm): Immortal Curiosity. Toby Betenson (Birmingham): Fairness and Futility. From Boston Review, is life a Ponzi scheme? Mark Johnston reviews Death and the Afterlife, ed. Samuel Scheffler and Niko Kolodny. Stephen Cave interviews Aschwin de Wolf, editor of Cryonics magazine. Immortality for $28,000: Vice.com does cryonics. Marios Kyriazis on sexuality, evolution and the abolition of aging. John Danaher on life extension and distributive justice. Childhood’s end: Katy Waldman on what living longer might mean for kids and teens. "We're going to cure ageing": It might seem like our greatest inventions have turned against us — the internet, climate change — but Jason Silva wants to challenge these assumptions with an unrelenting belief in technology as a fundamentally good thing. Can we render death harmless to us by perfecting life, as the ancient Epicureans and Stoics seemed to think? Steven Luper on exhausting life. The business of living forever: The melding of human and machine intelligence might make us immortal — and might make a bundle for an ingenious few. Steven Luper on “philosophy of life” and “philosophy of death”; on a good end; and on death and the meaning of life. Alexey Turchin on “GooglePlex Action” for radical life extension. Is belief in immortality hard-wired? A study examines development of children's “prelife” reasoning. Living Unlimited magazine is dedicated to the proposition that if we take responsibility for all aspects of our lives, we are organically capable of living forever.