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What if you found out you could live a healthy life lasting for a thousand years or longer? Advances in biomedical technology raise the theoretical possibility that people could dramatically prolong or even indefinitely extend “healthy” human life. If this science of “radical life extension” is realized and the technology becomes widely available, it would arguably have a more radical impact on humanity than any other development in history. This book is the first concerted effort to explore the implications of radical life extension from the perspective of the world’s major religious traditions. Review “To say that the questions this volume raises are better than the answers it proposes does not for a moment diminish the value of this rich anthology of recent thinking in the study of radical life extension. Two masterful introductory papers describe the current state of medical and technological research and raise all the significant issues. The responses that follow from representatives of world religions are properly tentative and exploratory but extraordinarily provocative. They stretch the imagination and left this reader confronting his own mortality in a very different spir

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Author

Derek F. Maher, Calvin Mercer

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781349374700

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Sociology, Medical