Channel 4 Documentary following the revolutionary life-extension and immortality ideas of this somewhat eccentric scientist, Dr. Aubrey de Grey. This show is all about the radical ideas of a Cambridge biomedical gerontologist called Aubrey de Grey who believes that, within the next 20-30 years, we could extend life indefinitely by addressing seven major factors in the aging process.

THE honest truth is, for a comedian, even death is just a premise to make jokes about. I know this because I was on the phone with George Carlin nine days ago and we were making some death jokes. We were talking about Tim Russert and Bo Diddley and George said: “I feel safe for a while. There will probably be a break before they come after the next one. I always like to fly on an airline right after they’ve had a crash. It improves your odds.”

Technological convergence will change our lives but won't make them indenfinitely long

"In Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University in the Fall of 2007, facing pancreatic cancer and the likelihood that he would only live a month or two, Randy summed up his life’s wisdom for his kids (then 1,2, and 5)."

The Human Mortality Database (HMD) was created to provide detailed mortality and population data to researchers, students, journalists, policy analysts, and others interested in the history of human longevity. The project began as an outgrowth of earlier projects in the Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, and at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany (see history). It is the work of two teams of researchers in the USA and Germany (see research teams), with the help of financial backers and scientific collaborators from around the world (see acknowledgements).

SAN FRANCISCO — They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.

When speaking of death and immortality though, it’s important to bring in the perspective of a school of thought called the Transhumanists. These thinkers believe that information technologies are growing exponentially and that this exponential growth will transform nearly every aspect of our lives, including our ability to extend life indefinitely, which is also known as radical life extension. I happen to agree with them, and am a big fan of these theories. One of my favorite Transhumanists, Ray Kurzweil, explains radical life extension this way

This series of posts, on death, was inspired by several years of contemplating the nature of death. Death is something that I consider daily, and not just as a philosophical concept, but as a continued experience and integral part of life. This series is an attempt to share the knowledge that I’ve gleaned from death, which has been a profound and omni-present teacher.