How to Live Forever or Die Trying: On the New Immortality (edition 2008)

by Bryan Appleyard

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Title:	How to Live Forever or Die Trying: On the New Immortality
Authors:	Bryan Appleyard
Info:	Pocket Books (2008), Paperback, 320 pages
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Medical science has improved at an exponential rate in recent decades and there are those who believe that the ability to cheat death will soon be within our reach: the first person to live to be 1,000 years old has, they say, already been born. What has happened to get people so excited about the prospect of eternal life? And if they are right, what would it mean for us as human beings? If death became negotiable, would we still fall in love or have children? Would we still, in fact, be human? HOW TO LIVE FOREVER OR DIE TRYING tackles these and myriad other questions with dazzling skill.… (more)

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