Ray Kurzweil wants to eradicate natural aging and death. If his plans don’t advance as quickly as he expects and he ends up dying, he will be frozen in liquid nitrogen with instructions to reawaken him once science has figured out immortality.
“People are daunted when they hear of these things,” Kurzweil once said. “Then they say, ‘I don’t know if I want to live that long.’” For Kurzweil, who has two children, the acceptance of inevitable death is no saner than the acceptance of early death. “It’s a common philosophical position that death gives meaning to life, but death is a great robber of meaning,” he said. “It robs us of love. It is a complete loss of ourselves. It is a tragedy.”
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Adapted from Tad Friend’s article, “The God Pill.”