>From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortality
Some scientists, futurists, and philosophers, such as scientists
Aubrey de Grey and Ray Kurzweil believe that human immortality is
achievable in the next few decades. Others are somewhere in the middle
of these two extreme viewpoints, thinking that immortality is
achievable in some period of time longer than 20-30 years, but not
impossible.
Biological immortality is what life extension advocates feel is likely
in decades to come. Specifically this refers to the absence of aging
of the body due to baseline biological human limitations, but
acknowledgement that complete immortality in a human form is unlikely
due to the fact that even when you remain biologically young, once
every few hundred years individuals will get killed in an accident
(4.4% of U.S. deaths now) or by other means
The Subject of Immortality is immeasurable and consists of various
subsets. <Slip
Wikipedia breaks it down like this:
# 1 Definitions
* 1.1 Spiritual
* 1.2 Hypothetical
* 1.3 Physical
# 2 Physical immortality
* 2.1 Causes of death
o 2.1.1 Aging
o 2.1.2 Disease
o 2.1.3 Trauma
* 2.2 Biological immortality
o 2.2.1 Biologically immortal species
o 2.2.2 Evolution of ageing
* 2.3 Prospects for human biological immortality
o 2.3.1 Scientific "Elixir of Youth"
o 2.3.2 Technological immortality
o 2.3.3 Cryonics
o 2.3.4 Mind-to-computer uploading
o 2.3.5 Cyborgology
* 2.4 Mystical and religious pursuits of physical immortality
# 3 Religious traditions
* 3.1 Hinduism
* 3.2 Shintoism
* 3.3 Zoroastrianism
* 3.4 Buddhism
* 3.5 Judaism
* 3.6 Christianity
o 3.6.1 Roman Catholicism
o 3.6.2 Jehovah's Witnesses
o 3.6.3 Mormonism
o 3.6.4 Other Christian beliefs
* 3.7 Islam
* 3.8 Taoism
# 4 Ethics of immortality
* 4.1 Undesirability of immortality
* 4.2 Desirablity of immortality
# 5 Symbols
On Feb 17, 6:38 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Immortality, the ability to live forever, has always been an
> intriguing topic, as I'm sure it is for many others. I've done a
> little research on the topic, but I'm by no means an expert on the
> topic. The work of Aubrey DeGrey is extremely interesting as is the
> work of many others, but I was wondering if anyone knew anything else
> about it?
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