Bryan Appleyard

A dazzling, funny, alarming, entertaining and thought-provoking look at immortality and how some believe it will soon be within our reach.

On the New Immortality

How to Live Forever Or Die Trying

Gavin

Critical account of transhumanism. He focuses on the sensational bits, morbidness, cryonics, and the inveterate pill-munching. (Not sure why attempting to resist death is more morbid than totally submitting to it.)

Bit of a mishmash, with an extended middle section on Ultimate Meaning and Medieval funeral habits not totally meshing - and his grasp of the science is, as he admits, insufficient. 

Not as unbalanced as e.g. Wieseltier or Kass.

How to Live Forever Or Die Trying On the New Immortality

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