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	Kearl's Guide to the Sociology of Death: Quests for Longevity and Symbolic Immortality
		will for immortality is a central drive of the human primate--perhaps even more so nowadays in postmodern cultures where an increasing proportion of the population not only survives into old age but reaches Maslow's need for transcendence.
		Immortality Foundation, "a non-profit corporation whose sole purpose is to be the permanent guardians of the collections of words and other materials entrusted to us, thus allowing these materials to remain alive as long as humanly possible."
		Gutzon Borglum is immortalized by his Mt. Rushmore Memorial, Leonardo da Vinci by the "Mona Lisa", Thomas Edison by the incandescent bulb, and Henry Ford by the automobile bearing his name.
	www.trinity.edu /~mkearl/death-3.html (5550 words)

	Biological immortality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Biological immortality can be defined as the absence of a sustained increase in rate of mortality as a function of chronological age.
		Biologists have chosen the word immortal to designate cells that are not limited by the Hayflick limit (where cells no longer divide because of DNA damage or shortened telomeres).
		The term immortalization was first applied to cancer cells that developed the telomere-lengthening enzyme telomerase, and thereby avoided apoptosis (programmed cell death).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biological_immortality (625 words)

	Robert Ettinger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Chester Wilson Ettinger (born December 4, 1918) is known as "the father of cryonics" due to the impact of his 1962 book The Prospect of Immortality.
		Ettinger correctly saw that people, even the intellectually, financially and socially distinguished, would have to be coaxed into realizing that dying is (usually) a gradual and reversible process, and that freezing damage is so limited (even though fatal by present criteria) that its reversibility demands relatively little in future progress.
		Following publication of The Prospect of Immortality Robert Ettinger again waited for prominent scientists, industrialists, or others in authority to see the wisdom of his idea and begin implementing it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Ettinger (1853 words)

	ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Intimations of Immortality -- Harris 288 (5463): 59 -- Science
		But it is one thing to contemplate our own "immortality," quite another to contemplate a world in which increasing numbers of people live indefinitely, and in which future children have to compete with previous generations for jobs, space, and everything else.
		Such a prospect may make "immortality" seem unattractive, but we should remember that it is connected with preventing or curing a whole range of serious diseases.
		There are numerous reasons why we should not contemplate one everlasting generation but be in favor of the regular creation of new human individuals--such as the desire to procreate, the pleasures of having and rearing children, the advantages of fresh people and fresh ideas, and the possibility of continued evolution or at least development.
	www.sciencemag.org /cgi/content/full/288/5463/59 (1172 words)

	The Journal of Philosophy, Science & Law - Immortality and Sentencing Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Even if immortality is unattainable in the short term, it is certain that as a result of advances in medical treatment the average human life span will continue to increase.
		While immortality appears to be an unrealistic claim, it may be no more incredible than the notion of air travel was to people many years ago.
		Once opposition to a practice is grounded merely in possible adverse side effects stemming from it, the door is left open for proponents of the practice to irresistibly press their case by implementing safeguards nullifying the possible collateral harm.
	www.miami.edu /ethics2/jpsl/archives/papers/immortality.html (4715 words)

	ImmInst.org ~ Constitution & Bylaws
		The name of this nonprofit organization shall be “The Immortality Institute” or “Immortality Institute”, abbreviated to “ImmInst” and heretofore referred to as such by this constituting instrument.
		The Immortality Institute shall have the power and right to establish and maintain offices and to engage in business at any other place or places within or outside the State of Alabama.
		This organization known as “Immortality Institute” was registered on the 3rd September 2002 in the State of Alabama, USA.
	imminst.org /about/constitution.php (3487 words)

	The Secret of Immortality
		The idea of immortality has fascinated our culture, just as it has fascinated all the cultures that have come before.
		Science, some say, may in the future increase the human lifespan to the point where we will be living for many more years than we are now, and the prospect of complete immortality is the next logical step.
		You must realize that you are a sinner in need of God's forgiveness, and you must accept Jesus Christ as your Savior -- in other words, you must believe that He died on the cross for your sins and rose from the dead (Romans 4:25), and trust in Him to save you on this basis.
	www.angelfire.com /scifi/leia1/immortality.html (1041 words)

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		Ettinger had first published THE PROSPECT OF IMMORTALITY in a shorter, noncommercial form in 1962, and before that had published a brief article on the cryonics concept in the science fiction magazine STARTLING STORIES ("The Penultimate Trump", which appeared in the March 1948 issue).
		Nevertheless, it was the commercial publication of THE PROSPECT OF IMMORTALITY by Doubleday in 1964 that launched the cryonics movement and brought it many if not most of its current adherents.
		Thank you for having the genius, the foresight and the courage to write and publish THE PROSPECT OF IMMORTALITY, thank you for twenty years of cryonics, thank you for bringing hope to despair and light to where there was only darkness.
	www.alcor.org /cryonics/cryonics8402.txt (10012 words)

	Digital Immortality: Dream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In The Prospect of Immortality (1964), physics professor Robert Ettinger proposed Cryonics: extending life by freezing those dying from disease until a cure is found.
		In Immortality (1998), science-fiction author Ben Bova said immortality is already at hand, and we need not freeze our bodies to achieve it.
		If inevitable, then we need to address the social, economic, and ethical implications while Digital Immortality is still in its infancy.
	home.att.net /~leefrank/digital/dream.html (650 words)

	ImmInst.org ~ About
		The Immortality Institute is a nonprofit 501(3)(c) organization with the mission "to conquer the blight of involuntary death." The organization hosts an online forum, publishes books, creates films, and sponsors conferences in order to advance life extension research.
		The mission of ImmInst is to conquer the blight of involuntary death.
		At the bottom of the 8 is the DNA helix symbolic of an immortal molecule
	www.imminst.org /about (229 words)

	THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2007 — Page 16
		prospect of a major war threatening western civilization and its present extensions to the actually developing countries.
		In discussing this prospect with various groups, I was surprised to find that the idea of extending one's lifetime to thousands of years was often seen as a dismal suggestion.
		Certainly, immortality would seem unattractive if it meant endless infirmity, debility, and dependency upon others—but here we'll assume a state of perfect health.
	edge.org /q2007/q07_16.html (6718 words)

	The Myth of the Golden Scalpel
		Both Ettinger's THE PROSPECT OF IMMORTALITY and the cryonics movement as a whole have been accused of being unscientific, of offering unrealistic hope.
		We realize that Ettinger's original hypothesis needs a great deal of additional evidence before we can rest comfortably or even be assured that cryonics is good enough to achieve the goal of continued survival.
		It was nearly 20 years after publication of THE PROSPECT that ALCOR undertook the first basic research to examine the premise of cryonics.
	alcor.org /printable.cgi?fname=Library/html/MythOfTheGoldenScalpel.html (2087 words)

	Life extension - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For cancer (the most lethal consequence of mutations) the strategy is to use gene therapy to delete the genes for telomerase and to eliminate telomerase-independent mechanisms of turning normal cells into "immortal" cancer cells.
		To compensate for the loss of telomerase in stem cells we would introduce new stem cells every decade or so.
		The cryonics movement had been launched in 1962 by Robert Ettinger's book, The Prospect of Immortality.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Life_extension (5774 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		One of the strongest appeals prompting a person to buy life insurance, the study found, is that it offers to the buyer, “The prospect of immortality through the perpetuation of his or her influence.
		It is not the prospect of physical death that is inconceivable - rather it is the prospect of obliteration.” Persons apparently cannot tolerate the thought of no longer being present - obliteration.
		This is a method to which people increasingly turn to satisfy this “fierce desire to achieve immortality,” and to maintain one’s influence after death.
	www.gotoscm.com /new/pcg-sf/content.asp?contentid=2016052975 (979 words)

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		The problems that Camus had raised with regard to the purposelessness of human life could be solved if dying were made obsolete and Orr's was the first paper I had ever encountered that proposed to do just that.
		During the summer of 1978, I discovered "The Prospect of Immortality" by Robert Ettinger.
		Lands thesis supports and extends my original conclusion that the pursuit of physical immortality could be seen as a prime directive, because physical immortality depends upon growth or transformation of the human species.
	www.angelfire.com /ri/rickpotvin/pi.html (1479 words)

	ACS-Amazon Online Bookstore
		In the 1960s Ettinger founded the cryonics (cryonic hibernation) movement and authored The Prospect of Immortality.
		The story of a man, cryonically frozen after his death, who is restored to life 83 years later in the world of wonders that is the year 2071.
		Feeling little reason to live, he volunteers for a pioneering cryogenics experiment and is thawed out 50 years later by two young boys.
	home.jps.net /~cryonics/bookstore.html (880 words)

	Deep Freeze (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It addressed the concept of freezing a corpse until a cure for the illness that killed the person was found and technology was advanced to the point of being able to revive them.
		In The Prospect of Immortality, which Ettinger originally published himself in 1962, the author suggested that many incurable diseases might be curable in the future.
		I think that has really hurt cryonics, as immortalism flies in the face of religious beliefs very strongly, while trying to live longer does not fly in the face of religious beliefs," he says.
	www.citylinkmagazine.com /cover/coverstory060502.html (6975 words)

	Hang in There: The 25-Year Wait for Immortality \| LiveScience
		If it were a case of simply having a prospect of extending our healthy lives by 20 or 30 years, then one could legitimately argue that this would be money more ethically spent on extending the lifespan of people who have a below average lifespan.
		The reasons why people in Africa for example, have a low life expectancy is not just because of medical care, but also because of political problems.
		It's just a case of "Well, life seems to be fun, and I don't see any prospect of it ceasing to be fun unless I get frail and miserable and start declining." So if I can avoid declining, I'll stay with it really.
	www.livescience.com /humanbiology/050411_aubrey_interview.html (2724 words)

	Cryonics/start
		The idea of preserving people for later repair and resuscitation was not introduced until a 1930´s science fiction story by Neil A Jones.
		In 1964, a man called Robert C.W. Ettinger published a book called "The Prospect of Immortality" in which he seriously suggested that freezing people for the future might be a sensible thing to do in real life.
		He claimed that they could start immediately with the freezing procedure and let the really difficult part (thawing and revival) be taken care of by more knowledgeable people later.
	hem.passagen.se /eled/history.html (153 words)

	The Prospects For Physical Immortality, Winter 1998-1999
		Our religions, for the most part, have given up hope for physical immortality altogether and have invented “spiritual” immortality as a rather anemic substitute for which to hope.
		In trying to justify my hope that essential immortality should be achievable very soon, I must declare the subject of “accidental” death to be beyond the scope of my discussion.
		If we are to be the first immortal generation, we must somehow “buy time.” We must try first to retard the aging process and stop it.
	www.americanatheist.org /win98-99/T2/zindler.html (7188 words)

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		In 1964, his book The Prospect of Immortality promoted the idea that a person frozen after legal death might rationally hope to be resuscitated at some time in the far future when medicine has acquired the ability to cure most diseases, reverse the aging process, and repair any residual damage caused by freezing.
		The Activists Some readers were irrevocably changed by "The Prospect of Immortality," which seemed to offer hope where none had existed before.
		They wrote to Ettinger asking what was being done to turn cryonics into a reality, and they were dismayed when he told them that no money was being spent on research and no organization was planning to offer cryonics services to the general public.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/tsf/Public-Mail/cryonics/213 (2682 words)

	Immortality Devices by Alex Chiu
		Immortality Device is believed to allow humans to stay physically young forever.
		Open up your own Immortality Devices website within 3 minutes.
		As an immortal you have a duty to protect our planet.
	www.alexchiu.com (780 words)

	The Cryonics Society: Cryonics Information Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The First Immortal by James L. Halperin is arguably the finest novel about cryonics ever written, as well as one of the most meticulously researched and scientifically grounded.
		A national best-seller, The First Immortal is presents a balanced, optimistic, highly realistic and moving view of the possibilities of cryonic treatment as a path to extend and enhance individual human life and the future of human society.
		The Prospect Of Immortality is the book that began the cryonics movement.
	www.cryonicssociety.org /ebooks.html (488 words)

	Welcome To The Retro Future
		In a series of emails, the so-called "father of the freeze" reported interest in cryonics had "improved markedly" and that interest in suspended animation was growing by leaps and bounds.
		It was Ettinger who jumpstarted the cryonics revolution in the 1960s with his book The Prospect of Immortality.
		The Cyronics Institute has some cheery news for you: "the clock is ticking and that one day, much sooner than you think, time is going to run out." Great FAQ on cyronics.
	retrofuture.com /cyronics1.html (644 words)

	Lucretius [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		A Catholic priest with a remarkably independent mind, Gassendi seemingly had no problem reconciling his personal philosophical commitment to atomism and materialism with his Christian beliefs in the immortality of the soul and the doctrine of divine providence.
		It is hard not to see in the French philosophers' concept of the élan vital a powerful life force akin to and strongly influenced by the immortal Venus of his great Latin predecessor.
		That Lucretius' ideas wound up two thousand years after his death influencing those of a godly British mathematical theorist and a highly original and even eccentric French scientist-priest is remarkable testimony to their durability, adaptability, and persuasive power.
	www.iep.utm.edu /l/lucretiu.htm (5515 words)

	The Prospect of Immortality
		The full text of "The Prospect of Immortality" is now available on the web.
		The Prospect of Immortality is a sober, scientific, and logical argument founded on undeniable fact: that a body deep-frozen stands a better chance of being revived than one rotting in the ground; and that many people who died fifty or a hundred year ago of 'incurable' diseases would today be cured.
		Even those who are appalled by the 'prospect' will be intrigued by the argument.
	www.cryonics.org /book1.html (305 words)

	JET 14(1) - April 2005 - Bostrom - Transhumanist Thought (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		We have made you a creature neither of heaven nor of earth, neither mortal nor immortal, in order that you may, as the free and proud shaper of your own being, fashion yourself in the form you may prefer.
		Even if one believed that the probability of this happening any time soon is quite small, these prospects would nevertheless merit serious attention in view of their extreme impact.
		Both agree that we face a realistic prospect that technology could be used to substantially transform the human condition in this century.
	www.jetpress.org /volume14/bostrom.html (9763 words)

	The Immortalist Manifesto
		The reality is we are not just facing the prospect of 200 years in youthful splendor.
		But listen to what some of the most germinal and cutting-edge scientists, doctors, and thinkers in the know are saying about physical immortality.
		The fear of Death and the desire for Immortality are the primary motivations in human life and history.
	www.immortalism.com /1.html (1191 words)

	Homepage Afterlife (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Society offers meaning, purpose and the prospect of immortality to all past, present and future generations of humanity.
		The Society's purpose in seeking it Aim is to give humanity sufficient time and opportunity to discover a means to extend human life beyond death, not just for the living genertion but all past, present and future generations of humankind.
		Finally, the Founding Books lightly touch on what choice of new meaning and purpose humanity may make for itself once the work of the Society is complete.
	www.society-of-humankind.com /homeafterlife.html (281 words)

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