Guide to Immortality

Ever thought about living forever?
This is the first day of the rest of your life.

Okay, but are you serious about living forever?
There are self-tests below to find out if you are serious.

Do you know any immortals?
Not baseball greats or hall of famers. Not dead people. Dead is by definition not alive and immortal.

Do you know what an immortal is?
That's someone who lives forever with eternal youth. Forget the vampire nonsense and forget the Highlander nonsense. Drinking blood and getting your head lopped off is no way to spend eternity.

Do you know what immortality is?
Living forever and eternal youth.

Do you know what immortalism is?
The organized effort to achieve physical immortality and eternal youth without being turned into a machine. It is defined that way because some people are racing toward a dead end with transhumanism, so-called "uploading", freezing just their heads, and similar folly. Science has better answers than those. And science is not the only place to look for answers.

Do you know what an immortalist is?
That is someone who is serious about immortalism, serious about achieving physical immortality and eternal youth without becoming a machine, and serious about living forever.

Do immortalists look different from other people?
No. Not at first. But eventually the wrinkles should fade and the skin become more youthful, the gray hair should revert back into its original color without need of a bottle of coloring, the health should improve, the posture should improve, and in a hundred other ways life gets better. People should say: "Bob! You look years younger!" If your name is Bob, that is.

Is this expensive?
You betcha.

What if I'm poor?
Put away your checkbook. The only check you need is to check back here often to see what's being posted to help people like yourself. Immortality is for everyone not just some elite on Mount Olympus. There is a very logical reason for immortality being for everyone. If only some get it, then eventually, if you are one of the lucky few, you might find yourself in an accident or disaster or the victim of a crime. Your wallet or identification or Blue Cross card is gone and you are surrounded by ephemerals ready to pull the plug on you. If you fall unconscious, there will be no one to speak up for you. If you are paralyzed, you won't be able to stop someone from pulling the plug. If you cannot speak, you are so screwed! If you are in a coma, you are at the mercy of a system that might need your bed. They might harvest your organs while you are still using them.

Got the picture?
If everyone is an immortalist, then you can relax. A little anyway. The people around you will be more sympathetic than ephemerals.

What is an ephemeral?
A non-immortalist. Someone who thinks you should die when living gets inconvenient (for them) or chronically painful or Doctor Kevorkian comes to town or thinks that death is natural. War and violent crime are "natural" too but we're trying to stamp them out of existence too. If you think it is okay if humans die from accidents, crime, disasters, or illness; then you are a cold-hearted ephemeral. If you think it is okay if you die, then you are a stupid ephemeral. But that's our opinion. Ignoring it is literally a matter of life and death.

But if all the stupid people committed suicide, then wouldn't it leave more room for the rest of us who want to live?
Stupid people are always shooting their family or their coworkers or total strangers before turning the gun on themselves. One of those victims might be you!

When was the last time that the news reported that a maniac shot himself first then turned the gun on others?
That is the proper order. Leave other people alone. If you are a menace to society, then shoot yourself first not last!

When will we see immortality and eternal youth?
We're seeing it right now every time some biotech company or some university or research institute reports a breakthrough. It is a great time to be alive! We are locking up the nuts and bad leaders. People are turning away from death-oriented religions (we all know which no need to say). Politicians who said it is okay to put poison and pollution in our air, water, soil and food are getting kicked out of office. Some are even going to prison where they belong. The idiot is out of the White House and maybe we will see progress in reversing global warming and cleaning up the carcinogenic pollution that causes cancer. Education will result in less overpopulation. Space will soon be opened so that we can explore it. When that happens, large numbers of people will leave to colonize other worlds. More space, less wars over scarce resources. This is the best time to be alive!

Immortalism

editor's note -- this feed is collapsing but it has an interesting take on politics and Aubrey de Grey

Books on Immortality

the first book is scientific and the second is a fiction read with no vampires/werewolves/pixies/gods/supernatural beings involved (for the most part). A refreshing change!

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How to Not Die: Healthy Living

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How to Not Die: Healthy Living

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How to Not Die: Healthy Living

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How to Not Die: Healthy Living

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How to Not Die: Healthy Living

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How to Not Die: Healthy Living

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How to Not Die: Healthy Living

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How to Not Die: Healthy Living

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How to Not Die: Healthy Living

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How to Not Die: Healthy Living

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How to Not Die: Healthy Living

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How to Not Die: Healthy Living

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Immortality Institute: research
How to Not Die: Healthy Living

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Immortality Institute: research
Immortality Institute: research
Immortality Institute: research
Immortality Institute: research
Immortality Institute: research
Immortality Institute: research
How to Not Die: Healthy Living

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Immortality Institute: research
Immortality Institute: research
Immortality Institute: research
How to Not Die: Healthy Living

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Immortality Institute: research
Immortality Institute: research
Immortality Institute: research
How to Not Die: Healthy Living

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Immortality Institute: research
Immortality Institute: research
Immortality Institute: research
Immortality Institute: research
How to Not Die: Healthy Living

Editor's note -- This page can give you a real appreciation of Squidoo (and my lens). I found sign up and registration impossible at SirGo. I tried two different computers at two different locations with two different connections thinking that it was a technical problem at my end. It isn't. They just have not worked out the bugs and must be losing hundreds of potential contributors.
Immortality Institute: research
Immortality Institute: research
How to Not Die: Healthy Living

Editor's note -- This page can give you a real appreciation of Squidoo (and my lens). I found sign up and registration impossible at SirGo. I tried two different computers at two different locations with two different connections thinking that it was a technical problem at my end. It isn't. They just have not worked out the bugs and must be losing hundreds of potential contributors.
How to Not Die: Healthy Living

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Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortality Institute: research
How to Not Die: Healthy Living

Editor's note -- This page can give you a real appreciation of Squidoo (and my lens). I found sign up and registration impossible at SirGo. I tried two different computers at two different locations with two different connections thinking that it was a technical problem at my end. It isn't. They just have not worked out the bugs and must be losing hundreds of potential contributors.
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortalism: miscellaneous
How to Not Die: Healthy Living

Editor's note -- This page can give you a real appreciation of Squidoo (and my lens). I found sign up and registration impossible at SirGo. I tried two different computers at two different locations with two different connections thinking that it was a technical problem at my end. It isn't. They just have not worked out the bugs and must be losing hundreds of potential contributors.
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortalism: miscellaneous
How to Not Die: Healthy Living

Editor's note -- This page can give you a real appreciation of Squidoo (and my lens). I found sign up and registration impossible at SirGo. I tried two different computers at two different locations with two different connections thinking that it was a technical problem at my end. It isn't. They just have not worked out the bugs and must be losing hundreds of potential contributors.
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortalism: miscellaneous
How to Not Die: Healthy Living

Editor's note -- This page can give you a real appreciation of Squidoo (and my lens). I found sign up and registration impossible at SirGo. I tried two different computers at two different locations with two different connections thinking that it was a technical problem at my end. It isn't. They just have not worked out the bugs and must be losing hundreds of potential contributors.
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortalism: miscellaneous
How to Not Die: Healthy Living

Editor's note -- This page can give you a real appreciation of Squidoo (and my lens). I found sign up and registration impossible at SirGo. I tried two different computers at two different locations with two different connections thinking that it was a technical problem at my end. It isn't. They just have not worked out the bugs and must be losing hundreds of potential contributors.
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortality Institute: research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Immortality Institute: research
Immortality Institute: research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Immortality Institute: research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Immortality Institute: research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Immortality Institute: research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Immortality Institute: research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Immortality Institute: research
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortality Institute: research
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
Immortality Institute: research
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
Immortality Institute: research
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
Immortality Institute: research
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
Immortality Institute: research
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
Immortality Institute: research
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortality Institute: research
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
Immortality Institute: research
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
Immortality Institute: research
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
Immortality Institute: research
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
Immortality Institute: research
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortalism: miscellaneous
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Immortalism: miscellaneous
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
Flying High - latest science news / human enhancement / living forever: news of relevant scientific research
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
StateMaster Encyclopedia: on Immortalism: one of the better reference articles
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
A Beginner's Guide to Immortality: Extraordinary People, Alien Brains, and Quantum Resurrection: Although the editors don't care for many of the ideas in this book, we are by no means the conservative fuddy-duddies that we might appear (we're actually even more conservative than you think). The real point is some mental dynamite and getting out of mental ruts.
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page
Supercivilization - Guestbook: about human supercivilization, short to the point home page but extensive video page

glossary of words linked to immortality

from The Free Dictionary

Admetus
granted everlasting life when wife Alcestis dies in his place. [Gk. Myth.: NCE, 54]
amber axe
symbol of everlasting life. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 82]
ambrosia
food of gods; bestows immortality. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary]
amrita
beverage conferring immortality. [Hindu Myth.: Parrinder, 19]
ankh
talisman ensuring everlasting life. [Egyptian Myth.: Jobes, 99]
apples of perpetual youth
admit Norse gods to eternal life. [Norse Myth.: Benét, 43]
Calypso
promises Odysseus eternal youth and immortality if he will stay with her forever. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 166]
cedar
symbol of everlasting life. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 301]
Chiron
immortal centaur. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 58]
cicada
symbol of eternal life. [Chinese Folklore: Jobes, 338]
cypress
symbol of eternal life. [Flower Symbolism: Jobes, 402]
cypress coffin
symbolizes everlasting life; used for burials of heroes. [Gk. and Egyptian Folklore: Leach, 272]
fan palm
emblem of eternal life among early Christians. [Plant Symbolism: Embolden, 25-26]
globe amaranth
flower of immortality. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 172]
greybeard-grow-young
magical lake plant; its scent conferred everlasting life. [Babyl. Myth.: Gilgamesh]
ichor
flows through the veins of gods instead of blood. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary]
Luggnagg
imaginary island; inhabitants immortal but lack immortal health. [Br. Lit.: Gulliver's Travels]
nectar
drink of gods; bestows eternal life. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 75)]
nightingale
immortal bird whose voice has been heard from time immemorial. [Br. Poetry: Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"]
scarab
dung-beetle; said to carry secret of eternal life. [Egyptian Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 967]
serpent
sheds skin to renew its life. [Gk. Myth.: Gaster, 37]
Struldbrugs
race "cursed" with gift of deathlessness. [Br. Lit.: Gulliver's Travels]
Tithonus
given eternal life but not eternal youth. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 1087]
tree of life
eat of its fruit and live forever. [O.T.: Genesis, 3:22]
Utnapishtim
blessed by Enlil with everlasting life. [Babyl. Myth.: Gilgamesh]
Wandering Jew
doomed to live forever for scorning Jesus. [Fr. Lit.: The Wandering Jew]
Xanthus and Balius
Achilles' divine horses. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad]
yew
traditionally planted in churchyards; symbol of deathlessness. [Br. Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 1171]

{from http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Immortalism}

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Guide to Blue Zones

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Blue Zones

Editor's Mote -- While some health insurance companies and hospital chains are cynically using their Tea Party shills, dupes and stooges to fight "Obama Care" (based almost entirely upon Republican ideas), some health care companies are quietly helping affordable care and helping immortalism to go mainstream. I'm sure they don't see it that way. They are just trying to reduce costs for government and business alike. But the result is the same. If people are healthy, it is cheaper for the people and cheaper for the companies and government departments that have to underwrite their health plans. So if I take an acid tone towards The Tea Party, it is the immortalist in me talking. And I was looking through some of the articles here in this lens and even _I_ thought that I could be a bit gentler. It's just that I have a low tolerance of stupidity.

Blue Zones -- Longevity Legends and Peoples: Blue zones are places on earth where the people live long and healthy lives. Modern Shangri Las, blue zones provide valuable clue to healthy aging and longevity. Often the claims in blue zones of extreme longevity or exaggerated, but the good health of the elderly in these places in undeniable.
Blue Zones: Scientists have classified certain places on Earth as Blue Zones. They are places where many people live healthy, productive lives to well over 100 years of age. By studying them, they are finding common aspects that the rest of us can follow. In most cases, they are not expensive and make up a very
Quest Network Blue Zones - Speaking/Dan Buettner: Live Longer, Better. We're exploring the four parts of the world experts call Blue Zones places where people live the longest, healthiest lives. Backed by the National Institutes on Aging and the National Geographic Society, we are the most credible resource for information on longevity. We produce
Blue Zones: Blue Zones are area of the worlds where people live productive and active lives well past the age of 100. These zones are Sardinia, Italy , Okinawa, Japan, Loma Linda, California,
Blue Zones – Places In the World Where People Live to 100 and Stay Healthy | Singularity Hub: They are called blue zones - places in the world where people live longer and healthier than anywhere else on earth. Several of these blue zones exist, and in

[Warning: at this site are also some decidedly anti-life fields like singularity and terminators so keep your psychological guard up]
In the blue zones worldwide, what are common human longevity characteristics?: Each of the blue zones of the world share certain healthy habits that promote human longevity. Some examples are: positive personality traits, plant based diets, whole food lifestyle, centenarians...
Ageless Living with Dr. Oz: Secrets of the Blue Zone - Oprah.com: Dr. Oz goes deep inside the "blue zones"%u2026where people live longer than anyone else. What you can do now to live agelessly!

[Oh my Gosh! We're gone mainstream and have Oprah on this lens.]
Excerpt: 'The Blue Zones:: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who've Lived the Longest' : NPR

[sure wish we could get back links from NPR and Oprah. Oh well. We're still the number one pioneer of advanced immortalist thinking in the world.]
Discovery Health "What's a blue zone, and am I living in one?": What's a blue zone, and am I living in one? Read this article to find out what a blue zone is, and to determine if you live in one.

[Answer: No. You are not living in one.]
Blue Zones - Live Longer, Better: Blue Zones is the best place to learn how to live a longer, happier life.
Help Cedar Rapids Become a Blue Zone Community: Cedar Rapids is one of 58 Iowa communities invited to apply for the Blue Zones Project, which requires that we demonstrate we have communitywide support to transform our community into a place where the healthy choice is the easiest choice.

Help make Cedar Rapids a healthier community by pledging your support for the City's application to the Blue Zones Project. Be sure to include "Cedar Rapids" and one of the local zip codes between 52401 and 52411 when you register.

There is no cost to pledge your support for this initiative - just your promise to make healthy choices.
What is a Blue Zone?

Blue Zones are places in the world where people live healthy, happy lives well into their nineties or even 100s. Dubbed "Blue Zones" by National Geographic researcher Dan Buettner, these longevity hotspots share nine lifestyle habits, known as the Power 9, responsible for their remarkable results.
OSP: Wellness: A Blue Zone is a region of the world where people commonly live active lives past the age of 100 years. Scientists and demographers have classified these longevity hot-spots by having common healthy traits and life practices that result in higher-than-normal longevity. The name Blue zone seems to be first employed in a scientific article by a team of demographers working on centenarians in Sardinia in 2004.
Governor Branstad Announces How Iowa Communities Can Apply for Blue Zones Project: Today, Governor Terry Branstad announced the Blue Zones Project application process for communities across Iowa to transform their environments to a Blue Zones Community%u2122 as part of the Healthiest State Initiative. Author Dan Buettner, who wrote the book, "The Blue Zones - Lessons For Living Longer, from the People Who've Lived the Longest," also spoke at the press conference. Working with National Geographic, Mr. Buettner found "Blue Zones," or parts of the world where people live the longest, happiest lives.
Secret of Eternal Youth; Teaching from the Centenarian Hot Spots ("Blue Zones"): The euphoria of modern day health achievements is in an epidemiological cross road. We are going to lose out the hard caught health benefits to modern monsters such as obesity and its associated diseases. For example, the present American life expectancy of 77.8 years is expected to plummet due to the current trend of noncommunicable diseases.(1) However, there are zones (blue zones) on our planet where people live like in fairy tales, holding the secret of eternal youth.(2) Time has come to explore these areas to enrich our academic and research.
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Guide to Cryonics

you've seen it and didn't know it

You were looking at a version of it.

Han Solo in "The Empire Strikes Back"

the book that started the cryonics movement

Guide to Cryonics

editor's note -- Freebies in the first link. Free download of cryonics e-books.

The Cryonics Society: Cryonics Informational Ebook Resources: Cryonics information resource by the Cryonics Society, an independent non-profit organization working to educate and inform the public about cryonics and promote scientific and medical research. The site provides free ebooks and other material and covers topics including cryonics, cryobiology, cryo . . .
The Cryonics Society: Cryonics And Adventure: What Is The Cryonics Society?
Plan a Cryonics Service? Get a Tattoo! | Tekosaur: Interesting case of a cryonics client with an instructions tattoo, to be sure things go well. But as a reader comments on Flickr where the image was posted,
HowStuffWorks "How Cryonics Works": Dozens of people are frozen in cryogenic storage facilities, waiting to be revived when science is able to cure whatever killed them. But if they're dead, is revival from a frozen state even possible? Find out.
HowStuffWorks "How Cryonics Works": Dozens of people are frozen in cryogenic storage facilities, waiting to be revived when science is able to cure whatever killed them. But if they're dead, is revival from a frozen state even possible? Find out.
Cryobiology and Cryonics: Suspending Life to Cheat Death: Cryobiology is the science that studies the preservation of biological materials by cooling them to cryogenic temperatures. Fear of the inevitable death led many people to sign up for cryonics

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the quest for immortality should be sexy

not just scientific

that's the excuse for including this book cover.

. . . same book, front cover

Evermore

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Guide to Centenarians

If you live right, you'll become one. Make sure that you look good when your one hundredth birthday arrives.

develop good habits

vegan versus paleo diet

Okinawa diet

Be the Youngest-Looking Centenarian

Why live long if you're going to be wrinkled like the cricket in Greek mythology?

Okay, so these aren't centenarians. But why shouldn't a centenarian be able to pass for a twenty-one year old?

"Be a Youthful Centenarian" links

The Royal Magazine - Google Books: Mr. Charles Richards, aged 102, has the distinction of being the youngest-looking centenarian of his day. In appearance he might easily pass for a man of sixty. Vet. he has seen four Sovereigns come and go, and has participated in the rejoicings of three Royal Jubilees. He distinctly remembers the famous victory at Waterloo, and has shaken hands and had many conversations with the Duke of Wellington.

[They were thinking about this subject even back then]
How to Stay Young and Live Longer | eHow.com: How to Stay Young and Live Longer. What if I told you the fountain of youth was inside you and not in the hands of a plastic surgeon or hidden somewhere in world? Would you believe it? Well research has clearly shown that even...
Forever Young - Travel: Mark Honigsbaum and family enjoy some time out in the Valley of Eternal Youth.
Living to 100 and beyond - by S.C. Kleinhans - Page 2 - Helium: The Supercentenarian Research Foundation is grappling with current theories regarding aging that deal with cellular loss and atrophy, DNA mutations and intracellular long-lived proteins. This special organization seeks to improve the health and longevity of these Supercentenarians as well as people on the verge of that special status (100-109 years of age) as well as other individuals. The researchers conduct "experiments" that do not harm any of the living participants. They take tissue samples and other samples from every conceivable human organ. Special attention is focused on the eyes, blood and brain.
20 finalists vying for titles in young-looking parents contest: "WOW, he looks much younger than his age!" - This is a statement often heard at Bio-Young's Look Young, Feel Young Parent Search contest where 20 finalists of young-looking parents over 40 from all over Malaysia are vying for three titles.

There are three categories: Five finalists each in the Youngest Looking Father and Youngest Looking Mother categories and five couples thus, 10 people in the Youngest Looking Parents category.

"Ann Hoffman is a nurse and the youngest-looking great- grandmother I've ever met. She retired to Ouray in 1992 in search of peace and quiet. ... "

101+ Plus Ways to Live Past 101

Google "100 ways to live forever" and you should find this Men's Health article that often crashes. So use the cached link instead.

100 Ways To Live Forever - Men's Health100 Ways to Live Forever. No drugs. No bypasses. No scars. Just solid DIY advice on how to keep your heart pumping. Photographs by: Dave Krieger ...
www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site... - Cached - Similar

101+ Plus Ways to Live Past 101 Link

100 Ways to Live Forever : Heart Health : Men's Health Spotlight : MensHealth.com: Everything you need to know about preventing a heart attack, lowering blood pressure, improving cholesterol, and reducing your risk of heart disease at Men?s Health.com
Forbes: Ten ways to live longer - Forbes.com- msnbc.com: If you really want to live longer, then you can start with your attitude. Your way of thinking can not only impact the quality of your life, but also how long you actually live.
25 ways to live longer: 25 ways to improve your health. Small changes you can make to your diet and lifestyle
50 ways to beat the reaper - Behavior- msnbc.com: Maybe you can't outrun the reaper forever, but you can send the game into overtime by following these tips.
iVillage Total Health > Article Detail: Life expectancy is rising for both men and women. Follow our tips to living longer.

this is what a centenarian will one day look like

Guide to Cheating Death

Normally I do not approve of cheating or dishonesty in any form. However, all bets are off when the enemy is Death, The Grim Reaper.

Lie to him and cheat him. And will someone please steal that scythe so that The Reaper cannot lop off any heads?

Thanks. Remember the head you save may be your own.

Guide to Cheating Death links

Cheating death: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cheating Death: Back from the dead - CNN: Chris Brooks, just 22, was out for a night of bowling with friends. Exhausted, on the way home, he texted his girlfriend, "I'm dead." Fifteen minutes later, he was -- clinically dead -- suffering an unexplained cardiac arrest on the couch at home, right in front of his parents. But it wasn't the end.

People Cheating Death

Editor's Note -- If you go out and deliberately do something risky just to feel like you cheated death, guess what will happen? You won't. Good luck comes to those who prepare. Don't tempt fate by being stupid.

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Guide to Eternal Youth

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Some Thoughts on Eternal Youth

and the skin you're in

1. State of mind is all important. There was the curious case of a young bride told that her newlywed husband was killed at war (WW1). The shock was so great for her that she was mentally frozen in time. She would stand at her front window waiting for her husband to come home and, of course, he never would. Decades passed and passersby would ask "Who is that young woman in the window?" Her skin didn't age because her mind was stuck in the past. Mind over matter. Psychosomatics in action. Could hypnosis be used to achieve eternal youth?
2. In psychology research, hopelessness can be created in lab rats. When help finally comes, they no longer try to survive. Helplessness and hopelessness determine the outcome in survival situations. It is why some survive impossibly bad situations while others don't.
3. Positive thinking definitely has its uses.
4. Just as mind can affect matter, matter can affect mind.
5. There are germs that attack living flesh. Warm water and soap are still the best defense. Wash before as well as after using the restroom. Let the ephemerals think that they are too good to wash their hands. Let them return to the Dark Ages and Black Death. But immortalists should use common sense, wash their hands, and cover their mouth when coughing or sneezing. The commonest form of infection is self-infection. If you are itchy, instead of scratching and self-infecting, you should instead wash and use a dry skin lotion.
6. There are germs that attack dead flesh. The usual suspect is gangrene or Clostridium perfringens (there are dry and wet gangrenes too). If the doctors want to chop it off, transfer to a hospital that knows how to deal with gangrene. Filtration of blood to remove toxins, restoration of blood supply to affected parts, antibacterial drugs, anti-spore drugs, and hyperbaric oxygen are just a few of the methods of treating gangrene.
7. The importance of a doctor who doesn't give up cannot be overstated.
8. This wasn't what you were expecting from the title. You expected some new drug or ancient Chinese herb or being zapped by some Reichian orgone or something. And these all have their place. But there is no one* magic bullet that some angel of life will shoot you with to make you live forever. One accident, crime or disaster can make hash of the plans of mice and men. Eternal youth is like Immortality 101 in general. You NEVER get past the basics. You can move on to advanced things but you have to keep drilling the basics of good diet, exercise, rest, sleep, safety-consciousness, crime prevention (mostly by preventing criminals themselves), and disaster preparedness and survival.
9. A word about crime. The "lock'em up" approach of ephemerals does not work except for violent criminals. A kid goes into the joint for smoking a joint and comes out an unemployable, angry, homicidal maniac who will make a beeline for you and your loved ones. Why do they lock up harmless nonviolent criminals forever while mass murderers and serial killers get out in a few months? If you commit a nonviolent crime, you should get house arrest, an ankle monitor, stiff fines, community service, personal restitution to the family or individual you harmed (pay civil damages, apology, etc.), exile, deportation, made to serve in the military, work release program, drug rehab, counseling, adult education, anything but prison time. Save prisons for violent criminals. Prisons should be exclusively for violent criminals. Only two ways out: death by execution or death from "old age." Harsh? No. Not harsh enough. Save your tears for the nonviolent criminal. Liberals are wrong to oppose the death penalty for mass murderers and serial killers. Fry them. Conservatives are wrong to lock up underage black children for first minor offense while letting Rush Limbaugh get off scot-free for the same offense. Hypocritical S.O.B.'s.

*you have to do all of these things, not just some.

books on eternal youth

can't find this on Amazon

In the Bible, Nazirites were commanded to avoid grapes.

Guide to Growing Younger

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Grow Younger, Live Longer 1: What We Consider Normal Reality

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Galvanic Spa: Growing Younger Just Got Easier

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books on growing younger

Editor's Note -- Most of this seems like anti-aging or age reversal and therefore duplication of another section. One day, this section may disappear unless you let me know that you want more of it.

Guide to Life Extension

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Guide to Living Forever

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RFDC - November 18: Living Forever - Your Views...

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Guide to Longevity

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editor's note -- I toss in mythology just for beauty sake. Here is Jurojin, The God of Longevity

Guide to Reversing Aging

This is also known as anti-aging.

aging

When we say "anti-aging" we are talking about being against decline. Let's be clear: We are not fighting the clock. That's a fool's errand. Even newborn babies get older. They start out aged zero but at the end of their first day, they are one day OLD and each passing day one day OLDER. Decline is simply heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, gray hair, baldness, presbyopia, tooth loss, wrinkles, senility, and most of this caused by the unraveling of your DNA. In situ gene therapy could cure most of these problems.

Age Reversal

or reversal of aging or anti-aging

1. Lower your blood pressure. Or get it under control.
2. Stay on a low carbohydrate diet. Avoid sugar entirely. Sugar is evil. Sugar is addictive. Sugar should be classified as a narcotic. You've heard of little kids going into sugar comas. In the past, sugar supported slavery and it still supports a form of slavery. Sugar cane workers have some of the worst working conditions of any labor. White sugar, sucrose, dextrose, fructose, corn syrup, cane, and the two dozen other aliases that sugar uses are in half the foods in your supermarket. Sugar causes cavities and other dental problems. Sugar can lead to depression and other mental problems. Sugar (and a high carb diet) causes diabetes. Sugar is a major cause of heart disease and cancer. Sugar may be implicated in kidney failure and arthritis (though these diseases have other causes). [Sugar substitutes are as bad as sugar. Xylitol and honey are the least bad.]
3. Quit addictive drugs including caffeine, nicotine, sucrose, and alcohol.
4. Socialize.
5. Don't sit or lay about too much because sedentary habits will kill you.
6. Eat for nutrition means eat to live. Don't live to eat.
7. If you are on eight or more medications and prescriptions, then . . . . . oh, why bother to tell you? You're a drug addict, you're not likely to change, and the side effects of the drug interactions will kill you.
8. Slim down and firm up.
9. Use sunscreen.
10. Don't smoke tobacco, marijuana or anything else.
11. Don't put soap or anything with alcohol on your face. Instead apply a non-soapy, nonalcoholic facial cleanser. Wipe it off with tissue and then washcloth. Finally, pat on a clarifying lotion with a cotton ball.
12. Exfoliate two or three times a week.
13. Use a hypoallergenic moisturizer but choose one that is right for you. The wrong one will clog pores.
14. Keep your bones strong with calcium and vitamin D.
15. Exercise for stamina and suppleness.
16. Monitor your cholesterol. Raise your HDL and lower your LDL.
17. Get your essential fatty acids and eliminate the bad fats in your diet. The ones that are solid at room temperature but melt when heated will clog your arteries. The usual suspects: lard, grease, transfats, saturated fats, and the stuff that floats to the top when you bottle and refrigerate the broth from soup.
18. Avoid X-rays and gamma rays. Quit your job in the nuclear power plant and in the hospital radiology department. Stay off high altitude planes. If your doctor orders up X-rays, find out if it is absolutely necessary. If not, get another doctor. If absolutely necessary, leave if the machine does not have yttrium filters.
19. Put more fiber in your diet.
20. Avoid Lucifer foods and eat more cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, kohlrabi, and mustard greens.
21. Lucifer foods include: smoked, grilled, charcoal broiled, barbecued, salt-cured, pickled, or preserved with nitrates or nitrites. One serving is worse than smoking a whole pack of cancer sticks. Be careful of your cooking methods: using Satan's hellfire (smoking, grilling, charcoal broiling, and barbecuing) introduces mutagens. Are we really surprised that the region of the country that does BBQ the most has the worst health statistics?
22. Wrapping barbecue in aluminum foil does not help. The aluminum itself is a problem.
23. Reduce stress.
24. Lose weight if you are overweight. You cannot be fat and an immortalist. Choose one. You can't have both.
25. Stay out of caves and mines that are full of radon gas. Seal cracks in your basement floor. If you live in an energy-efficient home, allow for proper ventilation and air out the house on warm winter days and cool summer nights.
26. If you are African-American, rich, middle-class or poor, your house is probably sitting on a former toxic waste dump. Environmental racism by chemical companies and real estate developers is a sad fact. Move and do chemical tests of the soil and subsoil before you move into your next neighborhood. And do not be downwind of any nuclear plant, chemical plant, biological proving ground, or railroad track that carries tanker cars. The racist ephemerals really are out to kill you. You are not imagining it.
27. Red Americans (First Americans or Native Americans) face a problem similar to that of Blacks. However, if you live on a reservation or other tribal lands, the environmental hazards are likely to be tailings from mines, contamination of surface water, and contamination of groundwater. Tell your tribal leaders to keep out the polluters or elect new tribal leaders. If the mineral rights have already been sold or leased, get them back. If the polluters do not clean up every toxic molecule, sue the bastards until court costs destroy them. Remember, you're here forever. They are here until they die or you kick them out. Whichever comes first. Some chemicals are toxic down to one part per million while others are toxic down to one part per quintillion. Think about it: That's the other side of billion, trillion, and quadrillion! [Immortalists who are not American Indian may be interested to know that Cherokees and Catawbas believe that Immortals live near them and occasionally among them.]
28. If you are yellow (or any other color) and living in China, your problem is coal-fired power plants and that coal dust cake that poor families have to use in their homes. It all goes into the air. It's not just the carbon soot going into your lungs. Some coal contains mercury.
29. When ephemerals hear "everything causes cancer", their attitude is to give up and eat carcinogenic food. The immortalist response is to start eating naturally processed food instead of artificial additives, colorings, and flavorings. The immortalist starts an organic garden and avoids drenching his food in poisons like pesticides and herbicides. The immortalist shops in a health food supermarket and sometimes (not often enough) finds that particular items are cheaper than at the unhealthy food store.
30. If you have a choice (and you should), then use natural preservatives instead of artificial preservatives.
31. Instead of cooking in hell's kitchen, switch to macrobiotic cooking. And don't use aluminum pots or pans. Cook in a way that does not destroy vitamins, enzymes, and essential fatty acids -- because food is a better way of delivering these nutrients than pills.
32. Substitute carob for chocolate, Postum for alkaloid caffeine coffee, herbal tea for the caffeine kind (black & orange pekoe), uncola for cola, root beer for beer, ginger ale for ale, grape juice for wine, and malts for liquor. It's like fat. Choose one. Immortalist or alcoholic with cirrhosis of the liver and stomach cancer.
33. If kidney stones run in your family's medical history, then drink lots of water and get B6 and magnesium into your diet. Sources of B6 are salmon, beef liver, chicken liver, sunflower seeds, chicken white meat, chick-peas, navy beans, and brown rice. Sources of magnesium are soy, buckwheat, black-eyed peas, nuts, tofu, lima beans, bananas, shredded wheat, and kidney beans appropriately enough. If you are at risk for kidney stones, avoid spinach, rhubarb, tea, chocolate, parsley, and peanuts (not true nuts).
34. Even if you're not at risk for kidney stones, you should be drinking eight full glasses of water each day over the course of the day. Not all at once.
35. Water is but one of the anti-aging foods that help fight free radicals in the body that cause mutation, chromosome damage, and cell death. Other antioxidants are ACE (vitamins A, C, and E), beta-carotene, selenium, and zinc.
36. Thinning hair, dry skin, loose or missing teeth, muscle weakness, constipation, and mental confusion. Old age. Old age? No, moron! Malnutrition. Once society rubber-stamps or stencils
O L D
across your forehead you're as good as dead. And you young immortalists out there are just as vulnerable as you old immortalists. The doctors will stop doing their job and write everything off as "old age." Everything that they might catch in a younger patient as significant, they now lump under the heading "old age." They give old people (my father) a dozen different medicines (all of which are interacting with each other and causing a chemical dependency. Hormone therapy? The body's endocrine system either shuts down or goes into imbalance because the insulin or testosterone or estrogen is now supplied externally by the pills or injections or implant or IV. The human body is lazy when given the chance to be lazy. The body can manufacture vitamins to a certain extent. Even Vitamin C. But over the millennia it has gotten lazy. It still can manufacture vitamin D but for how much longer? Don't take a shotgun to your doctor to make sure he doesn't do a half-ass job. Go find physicians who happen to be immortalists and encourage them to form an Immortalist Medical Association. We know that we cannot trust the AMA once we reach a certain age. They just give us drugs instead of vitamins and a kick in the ass. We need to be told that gray hair is not inevitable but is a sign of either a deficiency or exposure to radiation. We start getting older when we are born not when we reach some arbitrary age like twenty-one.
37. Baby all your skin. Especially your face, but not just your face.
38. Banish wrinkles. Plastic surgery should be your very last resort, not your first step because we've seen that cat lady on TV who was addicted to plastic surgery.
39. Flatten your stomach or you'll ruin your back and your knees. Knees are also destroyed by kneeling too much, football, and having to support a morbidly obese body. Lose the weight.

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age reversal continued

40. Overcooking food destroys its nutritional value and may turn it into the demonic food mentioned in #21 above. In the case of prions, no amount of cooking or high temperatures will make them safe. Prions cause mad cow disease and, in humans, an incurably fatal neurological condition. What you do is keep the President Bushes of the world out of office because they reduce the number of USDA food inspectors, tell the few left to look the other way, and let industry police itself.
41. Caution: raw foods have their limits. Rhubarb leaves, honey from bees who visited azalea and lime flowers, chick peas, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, and watercress are among the foods that can be deadly if uncooked. How many of us have been to parties where raw cauliflower and broccoli were laid out with the dip? I see everybody's hand up. And you were worried about the dip. [This is like watching House MD, the stuff you learn] Isn't coleslaw made with raw cabbage? Uncooked nutmeg is not just psychedelic if ingested in quantity, it's deadly. Nutmeg, that spice pulled out once a year. Happy holidays!

Age Reversal Resources

There are lots of books and tapes to help you as well as OTC remedies.

Age Reversal Resources

Anti-Aging Beauty Foods

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Anti Aging Sensitive Skincare Routine

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Tanaka Face Massage Part 1 (English)

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The Truth About Facial Exercises - Anti Aging Secrets Exposed

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Anti Aging Subliminal Self Hypnosis

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Why The Beauty Industry Hates Men and Masculine Men

Candace Chen Talks About Why The Beauty Industry Hates Men and Masculine Men's Anti-Aging Face Care: by FaceLubeUSA | video info

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http://www.facebook.com/FaceLube. This is Numero Uno among several video commentaries to takes an all inclusive and honest study at the strategies of the Beauty Industry to increasingly feminize men by shoving them toward feminized products that are usually designed to be attractive to women, without any regard and reference for masculinity and the men the products are built for. Presented to you by Candace Chen and FaceLube, Home of Masculine Mens Anti-Aging, Face and Skin Care products for men. Transcript for the video is the following: This commentary is dedicated to all the masculine men out there who refuse to be feminized. There's no debate: masculine men aren't down with artsy fartsy skin care. They don't have time to finger through dainty jars with exotic names, nor keep track of which lotion goes on before which cream and they don't want to smell like the tutti frutti lady. In short, skin care just isn't what masculine guys are about -- and that's the way they plan on keeping it, despite the beauty industry's efforts to pitch them girly products and PR campaigns to help men discover their inner feminine side, as if masculinity is a handicap. And that begs the question: why does the Beauty Industry Hate Men so much? Why can't they connect with the masses of masculine men who don't want to be feminized and never will? Through my research on this fascinating question, I've uncovered two reasons. First, traditional retail venues for quality and better masculine men's face care and anti-aging products, like department store beauty sections, are not meant to serve masculine men. And that's because up to 70% of men's skin care products are purchased by women. So the Beauty Industry tailors its retail locations to women, rather than spend big bucks to remodel it and appease you. Drug stores aren't much better, even if you're willing to settle for what the Beauty Industry calls low-end products. The men's section (if there is one at all) practically fits into a shoe box. You see, when the Beauty Industry figured out that they can get to you by getting to the women in your life instead, you are not important any more. So the packaging, the marketing, and everything else in-between are geared toward women. After all, if she likes what she sees, she'll buy it, take it home and help the Beauty Industry "nag" you, oops, I meant "convince" you into using it. Which brings us to reason #2 - The beauty industry doesn't want to admit that masculine men are...men. The Beauty Industry's female centric tactics perpetuate the stigma attached to a man's use of skincare and anti-aging products. Beauty and anything related to it is exclusively female -- and any man who uses such products is somehow less of a man. This alone is enough to prevent masculine men from going anywhere near so-called "beauty products" in the first place. It's time for the Beauty Industry to acknowledge that masculine men are powerful and yet staggeringly under-served demographically. It's time to create masculine face care products that truly work with men's nature, speak their language, respect their needs, and serve their interests. Masculine men have a right to enjoy all of the benefits that come from taking proper care of the masculine face, for an extra edge in an ultra-competitive workplace. And they have a right to be treated with RESPECT by ALL in the Beauty Industry. Brought to you by FaceLube -- Ultra Masculine Face Care For a Man's Man.

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Anti Aging Skin Products for Men

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Skin Care Tips For Men | Shaving and Anti Aging

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Reversing the Aging Process books

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Guide to Reanimation

Forget Frankenstein's monster, zombies, or even Egyptian mummies. The way to bring back those dead longer than several hours or days is probably nanotechnology -- although you can't rule out contributions from other fields for repairing the ravages of decomposition. Cadavers and corpses have more than beetles and bacteria to worry about (though the deceased are beyond worry). The primary problem is oxygenation of the brain and keeping it viable no matter how long dead. The rest of the body is a simple matter of cloning new tissues. The brain contains the mind and that is the number one considertion.

I'll admit my bias against transhumanists and their methodology and philosophy. They are in love with computer technology so much that they want to become gadgets. I'm not that big a fan of nanotechnology either. Llittle nanobots blowing in the wind carrying the demon seed -- sperm-- of serial rapists is one of my nightmares. However, in a pinch if you need to bring back a fellow immortalist, then nanotechnology and uploading/downloading may be a necessity. A slippery slope though as the ephemerals say.

reanimation

more fun than a barrel of mad scientists and tranhumanists

Reanimation methods besides freezing:

1. estivation - the opposite of hibernation, frogs hide in warm mud until rain returns
2. stasis - a science fiction favorite but no one has figured out the physics of it
3. hibernation - the opposite of estivation, bears hide in cold cave until spring
4. induced coma - doctors do this all the time for certain medical conditions
5. time travel - no longer a wacky idea but still a technological challenge and not likely to happen soon
6. mummification - a method that does not work even in horror films
7. get bitten by vampire - fantasy and bad fantasy at that
8. find an alien civilization out in the universe that already has immortality and change citizenship from Terran to whatever they are - transportation challenges plus no diplomatic apparatus at the United Nations to smooth the process along; but you'd be surprised at the number of people interested in space travel, SETI, first contact and ufology for precisely this reason; yet another sign that people have given up on lousy Earth leaders
9. self-hypnosis - limited uses because it won't help if patient is unconscious or dead but known to be great for holding back aging
10. yoga - ditto previous comments. I want to see the scientific data if a Hindu fakir claims otherwise. I have to hold my sometimes sharp tongue because I know of someone who has (so far) agreed to invite in scientists to verify his claims.
11. methods of Zen Buddhist monks - ditto number nine
12. and the method even little kids can do - CPR

I pursue these alternatives because until the first cryonics patient is unthawed, brought back to life, illness cured or injury treated and, most importantly, they pass a memory test; I will not trust cryonics until this happens. I watched an episode of Fringe where frozen heads from a cryonics facility were tossed out onto the ground to unthaw by the villain and I thought: "That could be me." Except if I signed up for freezing, then I would want the whole body treatment. Head only is for fools who could undergo The Three Stooges routine of being poked in the eye with a sharp stick and have no hands to fight back. It is the helplessness and dependence on the good behavior of other humans (when have humans EVER behaved well?) that sets my teeth on edge. Human institutions (like the USA) might start out well with a George Washington but give them a couple of centuries and you have George Bush in the Oval Office. Likewise, a cryonics company might start with good intentions and good company officers but then go through moral bankruptcy and end up like AIG or Enron with total irresponsibility. I know of one organization - the Vatican - that has lasted over two thousand years and their historians will be happy to regale you with stories of atrocities and make your hair stand on end!

Guide to Regeneration

Regeneration is natural repair and regrowth of damaged body parts -- even growing back lost limbs and organs.

Guide to Rejuvenation

Rejuvenation is becoming younger not only in external appearance but younger internal organs as well.

rejuvenation massage

Guide to Replantation

Replantation is reattachment of severed fingers, toes, arms, legs, and whatever else has fallen off of you. It generally involves microsurgery but not necessarily.

Guide to Resurrection

For the record, Jesus died of exsanguination (bled out) and suffocation. He could not breathe because his lungs filled up with fluid. Despite what people of the time said, he was quite dead. You can believe what you want about the resurrection part. We simply acknowledge it as the most famous resurrection.

Unless you are a Christian on a new mission field, I would not count on this one to bring you back. In fact, statistics say that church attendance is inversely related to life span. In non-scientific English, that means if you go to church regularly, then you live a shorter life. Some cynics say: "yeh correlated with low income and lower educational level and therefore less likely to see a doctor in time or trust one when they finally show up in the Emergency Room on Death's door."

[Editor's Note: See? Proof I'm objective. I'm a Christian and I report the facts even when they make Christianity look bad. But then Christian Scientists and Jehovah's Witnesses who refuse medical treatment are neither Christians theologically nor scientists following scientific method.]

Guide to Resuscitation

Resuscitation is the restoration of ventilation and circulation in a pulseless, non-breathing patient through such techniques as:
mouth to mouth
cardiac massage
CPR
use of heart-lung machine
defibrillators

Revival after cold water drowning is now almost routine. Okay, you're saying, they weren't really dead. Then what is death? When are you really dead?

Recompression

An air embolus is usually considered a death sentence but recompression in a pressure chamber if done IMMEDIATELY can save a life.

Rethinking Health Care

Preventative Medicine (prevention) is better than Curative Medicine (cure) and Curative Medicine is better than Palliative Medicine (relief). Most MD's are focused on treatment rather than cure of chronic conditions and most hospitals are little better than hospices which, like nursing homes, warehouse patients until they die.

Patients demand drugs because they are too lazy to exercise, too stupid to eat for nutrition (eating instead sugar, trans-fat, saturated fat, and too much salt), and too sleep deprived by work or school to sleep at least eight hours a night. Surgeons like doing surgery. And radiologists wear a lead apron -- which tells you what they think of carcinogenic X-rays. This is a health system that clearly does not work.

What is the alternative? Why should your first visit to a doctor be in the Emergency Room when they will probably pull a sheet over your face? Why see a doctor only when you are sick and it is too late to do anything other than tell you that you are terminal? That only encourages them to keep you sick so that they can pay off their student loan or pay for their new house. Do as some Chinese do and find a specialist in preventative medicine to keep you healthy. If you get sick, then find another prevention specialist who knows what they are doing. Why pay a doctor to keep you sick?

we've been reviewed

(great, we need participation)

"This Squidoo lens is trying to get away from the boring approach that most immortalist and life extensionist sites take: namely that of take a lot of pills and supplements. If you're going to live forever, it ought to be interesting.

It is true that you have to lay down some foundations like the nuts and bolts of staying alive when there are wars, terrorists, random crime, automobile accidents, and the plane you are on can crash. This lens begins to address some of these issues but it badly needs participation. The problem is basic: young people have the energy but not the interest since they think they're going to live forever anyway (without doing anything to make sure that happens) and old people see the need to do something but have let their health run down.

It will be interesting to see how this site progresses and what it will be like in two years from now. "

http://www.squidoo.com/guide-to-immortality

Guide to Senility

or, you don't have to be old to be senile

You don't have to be old to be senile. There is early onset Alzheimer's disease which can strike in your thirties. And younger people can get stuck in dysfunctional ways in their twenties and even teens. Drug use, drinking, smoking (despite all the PSA's), unsafe sex, fast driving, texting while driving and other stupid behavior is proof of something dysfunctional present. Then again, it may simply be that the forebrain / neocortex is not fully developed yet. But the bottom line is that you start aging the day you are born.

So what do we do, Toni, what do we do? Oh woe is me !!! Despair. Agony. Vital fluids leaking. Slight headache.

Well, for one thing, stop whining Montgomery Burns. Here are some ways to conquer senility:

1. cures for Alzheimer's -- several pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies are working on treatments and even cures

2. avoid aluminum -- read labels on food in the supermarket, bring a magnifying glass or reading glasses, no aluminum compound should be in your food. If you find that you have already purchased something with aluminum in it, then throw it away and don't give wasting food a second though. If you have Alzheimer's, then you may not be able to have a second or even first thought anyway.

3. spend time in a a hyperbaric oxygen chamber -- You might look like Michael Jackson in those supermarket tabloids but at least you'll have all your marbles.

4. confidence -- maintain your sense of confidence to help your memory. There is a very definite psychological factor in the whole equation of keeping your wits about you.

5. physical exercise -- you need circulation to your brain because obviously if there is no circulation up there, then you are brain dead.

6.. protect your head -- Never ever engage in boxing or other sports where you are hit in the head. Leave such foolishness to professional athletes who never had much sense to begin with. Your head carries your brain and your brain carries your soul. Treat your head with respect accordingly. Avoid all situations where you might conceivably be hit in the head. That means avoid riot police, racist cops, and racists in general.

6. mental exercise -- use your head for more than a place to park hats or to test out ideas for hairstyles or head butting (if you are stupid enough to risk brain damage by engaging in that practice). Do memory exercises first and foremost but exercise other mental abilities that you value.

7. learn memory tricks and tips -- take memory training and also set up some sort of system that alerts you when things start to go

8. take supplements

7.

senility

Not all absentmindedness is caused by Alzheimer's. Did you know that hyperbaric oxygen can cure senility in many cases?

Energy and the Will to Live

Considering the number of medical ways to keep people alive and considering personal experience with old senior retired people, you have to ask: Is death often a matter of losing the will to live?

I've seen it happen. I visit an old friend who sits up in her chair and talks to me like old times. Plenty of energy. As I left that last time, I happened to glance back over my shoulder and noticed that she had slumped back into the catatonic stupor (typical of those human warehouses called nursing homes) that she was in when I arrived. She perks up when I talk to her normally but now surrounded by her family who babies her, the life instantly goes out of her. Literally. A week later, she died. I found out about it when I saw the hearse in the driveway. I have to wonder if my absence killed her. Or she lost the will to live. That will was there when I visited her the week before. A human being should not decline that fast unless there are other factors at work.

I think of that movie The Ten Commandments and those Biblical words "his natural force unabated." God gave Moses work to do and while that work made Moses' hair turn white overnight (actually in a matter of minutes after visiting God on the mountain) it also gave him so much purpose that he lived a life almost as long as that of Methuselah.

You have to wonder what kept Methselah busy. Moral of the story? Avoid God if you don't want your hair to turn white but seek out God if you want to live long. Enoch walked with God and is one of three people who simply never died. According to myth, Elijah, The Wandering Jew, and John the Apostle are supposed to be the others. Okay that's four and some people count Moses depending on whether you think Moses finally died or God took him without death like the others.

Jesus is in a special category. He died but came back from the dead. Sort of reverse vampire. The human race drinks his blood. Hey, no disrespect. That's the belief of almost one billion Catholics and quite a few other Christians. Read the Bible, I'm not making this stuff up whole cloth.

Actually, in another way, Jesus is NOT in a special category. Any eight-year-old with first responder training can bring somebody back from the dead. It's called CPR. Jesus might be seen as the forerunner of us immortals and immortalists. Even if you kill us, we come back. Pretty neat but not dying at all is even better. Paranormal fans, you can keep your near death experiences (NDE). I prefer not to know. People who have had a near death experience seem resigned to death. I don't want to be resigned to death. Slap whatever label you want on me (I know them all) but that's my choice. Respect it. Die if you want. It will make more room for those of us who want to live. Preferably on a clean planet with clean air, clean water, no nukes, no terrorists, no freaks who enjoy killing and being killed, no coal, no oil, no fission, nothing but the clean green Good Earth.

The phots that follow are meant to show a sense of humor. Anyone above the age of zero (a newborn) is technically old. So we are not agist here.

angry old people

Old People: don't mess with them!

Worthless Goddamn Cripple

about the warehouses called nursing homes

editor's note -- the blogger gave it the name not me

Lines of Research

What keeps ever-bloom flowers at the peak of freshness? Like a 23-year in perfect health? Is there some chemical cascade in the body that might result in eternal youth or is it simply the tag or aglet at the end of the shoelace-like DNA that, if missing, allows the DNA to unravel and you die of "old age" ?

Some people swear by exfoliation but is too much of that and too much chemical peeling asking for other problems? The definition of abrasion, after all, is skin going over a rough surface (like falling on cement or sandpaper).
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Energy

Chronic fatigue?

See your doctor for a complete physical. You might have an infection by the Epstein-Barr virus or Lyme. Have your doctor screen you for diabetes, hypothyroidism, anemia, mononucleosis, lupus, heart disease, and rheumatoid arthritis. Other causes are stress, no physical activity, too much physical activity, medication, limited or altered sleep, exposure to toxic chemical, major emotional event, depression, poor nutrition, or drunk on alcohol.

Weak?

The two most common causes are injury to the nervous system (head or spinal injury) or a stroke. Allergies, heat exhaustion, hypothermia, and shock are other causes.

Weakness or chronic fatigue is not normal in old people, middle-aged people, or young people. If your doctor thinks old people are supposed to be tired, find another doctor because this doctor will kill you and your loved ones.

1. Recharge your energy with these suggestions.
2. You might need vitamin B12.
3. Do aerobics. Sign up for classes to shape up.
4. Eat a high-fiber, low-fat diet. Avoid fad diets. They can leave you tired.
5. Improve your sleeping habits. Cure insomnia.
6. Deal with depression.
7. Don't consume alcohol, caffeine or nicotine.
8. Vary your interests and activities (more variety).
9. Schedule time for rest and relaxation. Remember that rest is different from sleep.
10. Get more iron in your diet. You might have an iron deficiency.
11. If you are on medication, it is probably a side effect that you should not dismiss. Either get a new drug or seek a cure so that you can get off prescriptions entirely.
12. Menopause is not an excuse for fatigue or weakness. Talk to other women. If you are a man going through male menopause, talk to other men.
13. Reduce stress.
14. Know your circadian biorhythms. This is especially important for men who think all this is New Age crap or just for women. But it is a fact that doctors have long accepted. Ask any doctor or pharmacist and they will tell you that medicines have to be taken at particular times. Ask anyone who has suffered jet lag. The human body has an internal clock.
15. Sex.
16. Give up the three meals a day routine and switch to grazing. Grazing consists of healthy snacks (not sugar, salt or fat), nuts, yogurt, fresh fruit, and salad. Some people have power lunches. Regardless, we are talking about portions too small to be called "meals."
17. Coffee, alcohol, sweets and other stimulants might work short-term but long-term will drain your energy. The caffeine-aholic Abby on TV's NCIS in real life would have serious health issues with all that Jolt cola and Starbucks.
18. Schedule exercise breaks just as you would rest breaks.
19. Seek out high energy people. Avoid low energy people. Now you know why old people get put in human warehouses, isolated, put in restraints and tied down until they get bedsores. If you read the introduction to this energy module, then you know that low energy may be illness or injury and society has abandoned you and left you to die alone. Run for your life from Gloomy Gus but remember that one day, you will be Gloomy Gus.
20. Ephemerals have their motivational speakers, so should immortalists.
21. Smile.
22. Find friends who will listen in exchange for you listening fifty percent of the time.
23. Attend shape up classes.
24. Practice breath control.
25. Move away from high-noise areas such as near airports. Move to a quiet town in a residential area away from busy highways and streets. Organize the citizens to enforce anti-noise ordinances. Heavy fines for no mufflers (better yet, ban non-electric vehicles) and boom box cars. Let the inconsiderate ephemeral kids lose their sense of hearing somewhere else. Wear ear plugs to rock concerts. Stay out of noisy subways (BART with its rubber wheels is an exception).
26. Wayne Dyer says energy is even found in inanimate objects. For example, a CD with negative lyrics that degrade women can decrease your energy level -- without you even playing it! Just having it in the house can impact you. Dyer may be on to something. It is known that living in clutter can sap your energy.
27. Get shiatsu massage or acupressure. Maybe take up aikido. And for the really advanced, learn about "qi" (which is different from "ki").
28. Take a weekend off or a holiday off if you are a workaholic. Needless to say, your workaholism is the cause of your low energy.
29. Instead of a hot bath, take a cold shower. Or a cool bath between 80ø degrees and 90ø degrees Fahrenheit.
30. Don't over-commit.
31. Learn when to say no.
32. Make a daily to-do list. But always schedule time to do nothing.
33. If you have ruled out hypoglycemia and other physical causes and you are still tired, maybe you are a SLACKER! Join the Marines and expose yourself to death. That will make you appreciate life more. But seriously, you may want to visit a psychologist who is an immortalist. Avoid Freudian analysts because you will never get better; some of their patients see a therapist for decades! [Immortalists should leave volunteering for war to ephemerals since they have a death wish anyway.]
34. Maybe you don't think of aspirin or Tylenol as medicine but they are and they have side effects: thinning blood and sapping energy.
35. Prescriptions that you apply externally to the surface of your skin can cause fatigue.
36. Get carbon monoxide detectors. Your home or your car could be making you fuzzy or tired.
37. Don't smoke and avoid second hand smoke. Cigarette smoke causes lethargy and even depression.
38. At work or in your home or garage you may be exposed to gasoline fumes, glue, pesticides, or herbicides. Buy an electric car. Find another way to attach things than glue. And go organic in your approach to your lawn and garden.
39. Maybe Seasonal Affective Disorder has made you SAD. If so, take a Christmas vacation down south or build a solarium for yourself with a skylight and southern exposure windows (if you're in the Northern Hemisphere) and/or an artificial lamp that provides the same range of light radiation as the sun. Consult a lighting expert to obtain a SAD-rated lamp.

another one we can't find at Amazon

Don't touch my organs!

(and I don't mean the church kind)

--the spleen used to be thrown away during surgery until fairly recently when it was discovered that this "useless" organ is responsible for regeneration of other organs

--the lowly appendix still is tossed but recent research suggests that it stores intestinal flora that the body finds useful (probiotics)

--the tonsils are part of the lymphatic system and most doctors have a hazy understanding at best of this system which, unlike the blood circulatory system, has no heart or pump. You have to move your muscles for lymphatic fluid to move through it. When infected or overtaken by cancer, the first, second and only thought of surgeons is to remove lymph nodes and lymph glands. Ever hear that ambiguous phrase "the body's immune system"? Well, the lymphatic system IS the immune system.

If you are involved in politics, do not carry an organ donor card or you will be chopped up for body parts for rich patients. And get out of certain countries where body snatching is a routine practice. Imagine: this used to be cyberpunk science fiction. Now it is fact.

Guide to Space Disaster Preparedness

We immortalists are deadly serious about living forever. That means that we do not stop at safety engineering to prevent accidents and new approaches to law enforcement to prevent violent crime (though none of that pre-crime nonsense in that movie Minority Report). We do not stop at eliminating war and other man-made disasters (that means fission, oil and coal have to go). We go further and take on the vagaries of Mother Nature:

1. solar nova -- a nova in the Solar System
2. coronal mass ejection -- the Earth just dodged another one of these a month ago
3. large asteroid colliding with the Earth -- a planet killer
4. comet colliding with the Earth -- It really sobered up the astronomical community when they saw one hit Jupiter live on television. Jupiter is large enough to absorb it. Earth isn't
5. a rogue black hole straying intto the Solar System
6. unfriendly aliens invading unexpectedly -- Pearl Harbor Syndrome
7. friendly extraterrestrials showing up with plenty of advance warning to open diplomatic relations -- same effect, ask Native Americans in the Amazon if you doubt that technically advanced cultures can devastate less technically advanced cultures just by existing

extinction level event

Might want to cancel those dinner plans and kiss your a - - goodbye.

Are you beginning to understand why I do so many lenses about saving the world and so many lenses about space?

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Why should we immortalists help the ephemerals save the planet? After all, we will probably move en masse to another world where we are not under the thumb of a death-oriented culture.

So why should we help save the planet? Because Earth is our home world. Even if we decide to leave, we might want to return someday. It would be nice if the whole planet were not a plutonium dump rendered uninhabitable forever.

Perhaps some immortalists should lead the cause of saving the planet.

E.L.E.

extinction level events

Extinction level events are not good.

supernova

Amateur astronomers hold what they call "star parties" to spot and observe interesting objects in the night sky. Shooting stars (meteors, not true stars) and exploding stars (novae) are the stars of star parties because you can see stuff happening within the human scale of time such as seconds in the case of meteor showers and days in the case of novas. Meteors come close, sometimes within hundreds or even tens of miles. Novas are distant, at sometimes millions of light-years (one light-year is the distance light travels in one year) away. People have spotted novas in other galaxies. Great fun these novae or novas.

Up close, not so much. If the nova happens to be the star in your stellar system, then you die along with your civilization if you have not bothered to develop faster than light (FTL) transportation to evacuate the population.

Aren't short-sighted leaders great? (that's sarcasm people)

Man into Superman

The problem with all this superman or master race stuff is that it leads to psycho societies like The Third Reich and the Nazi State. Judging by cult movies (The Night Porter, etc.) even the sex wasn't all that good. Democracy, constitutional monarchy and similar non-totalitarian system generally work out better.

And let's not miss any opportunity to bash the transhumanists and their ilk.

"The Far King"

by Toni Roman

Who seeks that distant shore?
Those who rest in peace?
The Ungrateful dead?
No.
Only the serenity and tranquillity of immortal living
To farther shores goes the far prince
Not as sanctuary from living
Only the prince and princess
Regard living itself
As sacred and holy
A blessing to be held in reverence
Our bodies are neither trash
Nor our minds to be forgot
Neither dismembered nor disremembered
For mind without body is ghost
And body without mind is golem
So to that distant shore
Goes the king afar with his queen.

The Far King

(borrowed image)

Cosmic Joke

What do you call a million year old man?
A young immortal.
And a billion year old man?
A young immortal.
Whether trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion or septillion;
The answer is the same
A young immortal.
Octillion, nonillion, decillion, undecillion . . .
It makes no difference
Mathematics tell us that no matter how large the number,
It is nothing compared to infinity . . .
Compared to the ancients OUT THERE in the cosmos,

we are a child race

Compared to infinity and older races,
We are in truth eternal youth.
That is the cosmic joke.

And, for once, it's a good thing.

Immortality Milestones

+ building and staffing a Howard clinic
+ achieving safe interstellar travel at FTL speeds
+ ZPG on Earth
+ NPG on Earth by voluntary means (not war, death camps, famine, disease and the other methods that our so-called governments use0
+ restoring Earth to a pristine condition (pure water, pure air, soil without toxins and radioactive waste, no drilling in ANWR, the usual)
+ world peace
+ reversing climate change
+ throwing out leaders - presidents and prime ministers -- who kill their people
[This one is actually starting to happen. Watch the news if you doubt it.]
+ breakthrough in regenerative medicine
+ breakthrough in rejuvenative medicine
+ breakthrough in reanimative medicine
+ first person to reach 150 years of age
+ first person to reach 200 years of age
+ first person to reach 1000 years of age
+ first person to reach 10,000 (ten thousand)
+ first person to reach 100,000 years of age
+ first person to reach 1,000,000 (one million)
+ first person to reach one billion
+ first person to reach one trillion
+ first person to reach one quadrillion [The astronomically astute will note that the universe itself is less than one trillion so you'd be outliving several universes. Cool ! ]
+ migration to other universes [Well duh. Entropy and The End. If you outlive the universe in which you live, then you either have to move to another universe or take up residence in interuniversal space - something even the fictional Q Continuum have not managed since they seem to confine themselves to one galaxy.]
+ methods found to preserve the original Earth when the sun goes nova [Simple: haul off the old sun which is just a ball of plasma and install a new sun. Can you say Criswell? He was the genius who invented the concept of stellar husbandry and astronomical engineering.]
+ methods found to preserve the original Earth when the whole Milky Way faces its inevitable end [Simply stick the Earth in the hold of a superclustership and take it with us. A superclustership is a very large ship (larger than our moon) capable of travel between superclusters at accelerations that leave a galaxyship standing still. A superclustership is probably the last type of "space" ship that our species will ever build before we turn to exploring other universes in the multiverse. From moonship to planetship to starship to galaxyship to ultimately superclustership.]
+ methods found to create a stable galaxy
+ our civilization moves to a less hazardous galaxy
[The Milky Way is a typical galaxy in that it has a supermassive black hole at its center that cannibalizes stellar systems and will eventually implode and collapse the whole galaxy upon itself. Also the Milky Way and Andromeda will collide. They've known that in astronomy since before the Hubble telescope. And ephemerals among our species will pick a fight with extraterrestrials and get us all killed in Star Wars. Some Death Star or locust civilization like in Independence Day or Childhood's End will hollow out the Earth and eventually the whole galaxy. We need to get out of Dodge City as they say.]
+ methods found to preserve our home universe [We find a way to reverse entropy: We sentence Rush Limbaugh to life imprisonment. Just joking. Entropy is heat death and Rush is full of hot air.]
+ averting an interstellar war with a non-human civilization
+ averting a war between immortalists and ephemerals. There would be no "winner." The best way to avoid this crisis is a gradualist program of converting all ephemerals to the immortalist philosophy. And those who don't want to convert? The Grim Reaper will take care of them. We don't need to lift a pinkie. Sorry. Just telling the truth. Life. Celebrate it. Death - kill it not people.
+ discovering humans elsewhere in the universe. Probably abductees kidnapped by Nords and Grays in flying saucers if you believe that stuff.
+ surviving First Contact or Worst Contact as non-Europeans say [think Tasmania, think Tibet, think Trail of Tears, think Holocaust]
+ building a supercivilization: IGT, pseudotopia and immortality [pseudotopia is an attainable 99% or nearly perfect society while utopia is an unattainable 100% since there is always room for improvement]
+ civilization stops tolerating even one human dying anywhere for any reason (poverty, ignorance, disease, accident, crime, disaster)
+ the last human dies. [No not the extinction of Homo sapiens like in Olaf Stapledon's "Last and First Men". I simply mean that we aren't dying anymore.]
+ the last soldier (or civilian) dies in the last war
+ executives of polluting companies are prosecuted under existing laws as mass murderers because carcinogens in the air and water cause cancer and other poisoning [Congress and The Roberts Supreme Court aren't going to see this blatantly obvious and inconvenient truth because they no longer know what truth and facts and science are and because corporations have more rights than individuals. Did you know corporations are practically immortal? Some have been around for centuries.]
+ the final end of personal income tax
+ repeal of the Patriot Act restoring the Bill of Rights
+ logic wins out over insanity as humans en masse decide to build a Vulcan-type civilization [forget that Null-A nonsense]
+ drug addiction is a thing of the past as we turn away from even caffeine, nicotine, alcohol and sugar

[I'm stepping on a lot of toes aren't I? Good! I'm trying to blast you out of your complacency. Look at the people calling themselves immortalists and note the gray hair. Do you think Death is going to give up without one long, mean and nasty war? This is a fight to the death against Death. Death takes no prisoners. It kills them. Death will kill you too if you do not get up and work with us ! ]

+ religion as we know it no longer encourages people to commit murder in the name of God
[Editor's note: I am a Christian but 99.99999% of my fellow Christians regard me as a heretic for saying that Jesus would want an empty tomb (resurrection) as the symbol of The Way and not a burning cross (KKK, death, Roman method of crucifixion, Inquisition.) ]
+ humans discover a planet of humanoids or non-humanoids - and unlike in Avatar, we leave them alone! [Not to invade and kill would be HUGE moral progress and ethical evolution.
+ humans able to defend themselves against more advanced aliens [probably by running since using some superweapon will make them hate us even more and make them even more determined to wipe us out; it will be a major feat to convince some hothead politician that cowardice makes more sense than starting a war we will lose; but then if we have technological superiority we'd win but still they'd remember and their military scientists would not rest until they found their own superweapon; see what I mean? You can't really win big wars.]
+ finally, drumroll please, a so-called "primitive" culture on Earth (say some tribe in the Amazon) feels sorry for our primitive Western "civilization" and decides to give us breakthroughs in medicine - on condition that we keep our corporations and colonists from grabbing their land.

Great Adventures

or If you're going to live forever, what do you do?

1. Get involved with space commerce, private manned space transportation, the free space movement, space entrepreneurship, space venture capital, and space investment banking. A very important field of research is selling solutions to cosmic radiation, specifically, radiation protection in space. Radiation is the number one reason why immortalists should stay out of space. However, ephemerals (Republicans especially since they deny climate change and the Holocaust) are determined to destroy this planet. Immortalists need an escape plan just in case. Immortalists will go into space. Many of them have told me so. Therefore, the radiation problem has to be solved.
2. IGT.
3. Do cutting edge gerontology research and development.
4. Stop the wars. Create world peace.
5. Work for voluntary NPG. The best twofold strategy for this is:
A. deconstructing the entire real estate development industry (the laws that let them chew up the environment and the laws that encourage large families) and
B. empowering girls with education, birth control information, contraceptives, and political power. The feminists had the right idea with self-defense. Give them guns to fight off the men in Third World hell holes. Christians and Muslims will fight you every step of the way since they think of females as baby factories who should shut up their mouths, be shut up out of sight, and be barefoot and pregnant. Lowering infant mortality would seem the last thing an NPG advocate would want but statistics prove that it lowers population. Counterintuitive but true. If your one child survives, then you don't need to have twenty children to beat the odds.
6. Reverse climate change. Restore the Earth to pristine purity. There is a Sargasso Sea of plastic garbage floating in the Pacific almost the size of Texas. Do we really need more proof that ephemerals can't be trusted to run this planet? Why would you foul the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the soil in which you grow food? Why would you use the oceans from which you fish as a toxic waste dump and a sewer? You wouldn't if you were sane and had an IQ higher than zero.
7. Charity begins at home. Before you worry about the ephemerals, worry about your fellow immortalists.
8. We need an Immortalist Medical Association because the AMA is a bunch of Doctor Kevorkians. They all want to pull the plug on granny and on all of us and still get paid. Living wills. What a joke. They should be called dying wills.
9. This last one is something that immortalists may be working on in a hundred years. We're not ready for it now because we don't have the technology. It is building a mega-evacuation time machine system to bring back loved ones from the dead or at least those who want to be brought back. Sort of like Philip José Farmer's Riverworld. A fulfillment of the Bible's mass resurrection. The final revenge against death. Killing the Grim Reaper or at least restricting his activities to ephemerals.
10. Then what? What do you do after you've conquered death? Way ahead of you kids. Already thinking about it and working on it. But you need to be thinking about the basics. Immortality 101. Eat right, exercise, safety, survival, and getting the biotech industry to work on immortality instead of cooking up the next super-Ebola for the Defense Department. You need to get the ephemeral population under control or all this is a pipe dream. The best way to control ephemerals is to turn them into immortalists. And if someone doesn't want to live forever, then respect their choice, step out of the way and let them die. The less ephemerals, the more elbow room for us immortalists. Ephemerals are children but don't let that fact cause you to lower your guard. They are insane and crazy people do crazy things -- such as killing you for no reason at all. Don't say: "Nobody warned me!" We just did. So be careful and be safe and don't worry yourself gray.

please tell me that we aren't at this intersection

osteoporosis

brittle bones

Calcium pills alone? Forget it. Exercise and a very balanced diet is the cure. Calcium supplements alone will deposit calcium in the worst possible places while eating a balanced diet (not lopsided pills) will direct the calcium to strengthen bones.

time

Ephemerals think of time as the enemy. An enemy that they readily surrender to; they almost eagerly throw up their hands and say something stupid like "in time, we all decline and die." Well if you don't use your forebrain and take precautions, you would. Immortalists view time as our friend because as time goes on medical science makes more breakthroughs, we learn from experience, the ratio of immortalists to ephemerals shifts in our favor as we live longer (and they don't), and the concept of living forever gains acceptance (at least among immortalists). It would really help if Father Time did not go around with that scythe looking like The Grim Reaper and with a baby looking to replace him. We really picked a bad image for this article. (But then we still haven't gotten around to replacing that cryo-cyl image at the top)

Death

Death is the only real enemy, the only permanent enemy. Enemies like Nazis, communists, and terrorists are temporary because a millennium from now no one but historians will even remember them. They are enemies to be sure but only because they build death camps and commit mass murder and numerous individual murders. Death is the ultimate enemy because it uses random chance to kill. That may take the form of freak accidents, crimes of "random violence", and foreseeable disasters.

random violence

Random violence is the combination of letting male juvenile delinquents run around loose, police failing to catch serial killers, organized crime putting out contracts on people, and intelligence agencies of all nations causing "collateral damage" as innocent bystanders get some euphemism [a variation of "license to kill" like the CIA involvement in the shooting down of that civilian plane with unsuspecting Americans in it]. There is no such nonsense as "random violence." There is only sloppy police work and cynical government more interested in protecting its stupid secrets than in protecting us. You pay your taxes to be gunned down by them?

"to protect and serve"

Police are called public safety officers for a good reason: That is what they are supposed to be. Remember the police motto: "to protect and serve." To protect us. Police should switch to non-lethal weapons. Remember the British Bobbies? They didn't carry guns at all and were effective because they lived in the community that they policed instead of sitting in prowl cars and commuting in from somewhere else. Crime prevention: come down hard on minor offenses by minors so that they don't progress to murder. And by hard, it is not meant to send little children to prison where they are sodomized, become bitter over that, and learn criminal skills such as getting away with murder.

public safety

organizations needed

1. A Foundation for the Achievement of Immortality
2. An Immortalist Medical Association
3. An Immortalist Bar Association [Who looks out for you if you are in cryonic suspension? Remember that Fringe episode where the villain tosses heads out on the ground to unthaw instead of simply returning them to deep freeze?]

one immortalist institution that already exists

murder investigation. There is no statute of limitations on murder. Cold comfort but cold cases sometimes get solved where the victim and perpetrator have both been dead for centuries. Justice should be swift. And you shouldn't die in the first place.

cold case unit

capital punishment

(no we're not talking about being forced to listen to the news from DC)

Liberals get mugged and become conservatives. Conservatives get arrested and become liberals. People who are pro-capital punishment change their minds when someone they know is falsely accused and executed despite DNA evidence that would prove innocence. People who are anti-capital punishment change their minds when those people who claim brotherhood suddenly commit a heinous terrorist act and start denying the Holocaust happened while re-enacting it. Forget the debate. Give those convicted of killing one person the option of quick execution or life imprisonment with zero chance of parole or commutation. That way the onus is not on our conscience but theirs. An innocent person might chose to live on the chance that the Innocence Project clears them. A guilty person might choose a quick death and let's face it: a person determined to commit suicide will find a way.

doctors

Doctors are crooks enough, we should not involve them in lethal injection or "assisted suicide." Doctors should keep their focus on extending life not be co-opted into becoming executioners. If you can't trust your doctor (and you can't), then whom can you trust?

Jack is back on his suicide crusade.

Is he an angel of mercy or a murderer?

a murderer.

Like Jack the Ripper. The Ripper thought he was helping society too.

assisted suicide

Assisted by the Taliban or Al Qaeda?

Give me an axe, I'll assist their suicide. We should be furious at these old bastards who insist on involving doctors in their suicide. We can't trust doctors as it is.
Now we have to worry that our families are saying: "Doctor, pull the plug on granny. If she were conscious, I'm sure she would want an end to the pain."
"She's in pain?"
"Oh yes, doctor. Every time I walk in the room, she looks at me with that pained expression."

(Granny can't stand the sight of you but because of the stroke she can't say it or write it.)

The real pain is the family of people who supposedly want assistance in committing suicide. A fancy way of saying murder. Only cowards need help committing suicide. There are a hundred ways for an old fossil to off themselves. Will themselves to die. Refuse to eat. Refuse to drink. Refuse forced feeding. Slap the doctor. Say, write or otherwise communicate that they refuse medical treatment. Pull out the tubes when no one is looking. Take poison. The list of ways goes on and on. So why would a person who wants to die drag another soul down to hell with them? Answer: They're evil.

assisted suicide

(an actual snuff photo? No, Hollywood FX)

In New York City, don't stand too close to the edge of the subway platform or some psycho may assist you whether you like it or not.

coma

- It is murder plain and simple when a family pulls the plug. And it is an economic decision. They are too cheap to spend the money. [Americans reject health care reform. Therefore, Americans like expensive health care.] It is also a decision of families on how they allocate their time. They don't want to spend time rolling you so that you don't get bedsores or changing sheets at home. The comatose person cannot communicate anything or protect themselves. You might be that comatose person as a result of injury or illness. So-called living wills can be forged. The moral of this story: Don't be a member of a family that is cold-blooded, poor, and doesn't take care of its older members.

pain

Pain of the chronic and acute kind definitely can drive one to thoughts of suicide. Some people can simply ignore it. Others stop eating junk food, exercise under the supervision of a sports doctor or kinesiologist, get physical therapy, massage, heat packs, ice packs, herbs, acupuncture, a better mattress, quitting the job that caused the pain, meditation, and in short do everything to stop the pain. Still others sign up for a program of pain management at a pain management clinic. TV's Doctor House takes the drug route (unhealthy) and distracts himself from the pain by abusing the people around him. He did use a hospital masseuse once but that worked so he stopped doing it.

exercise

You are never too old to exercise. What if you are one hundred fifteen (115) years old and on your death bed? Well you shouldn't have let yourself go but in that situation, first step is to boost your will to live. Second step, ask your doctor how to strengthen your heart since your heart is likely to give out and kill the rest of you and you are way too infirm for a heart transplant or artificial heart. With a heart that can take the stress of getting out of bed and back onto your feet, you are ready for the third step: regaining your sense of balance. Fourth step, walking a distance. Any distance. Across the room. Two steps even. Fifth step, walking a little further. Sixth step, regular exercise of any kind: sit-ups, walking, and squats are basic. Seventh step, swimming under supervision of a lifeguard or nurse. Eighth step, chasing off the medical journalists who can't figure out how the world's oldest person pulled back from the brink of death and is getting healthier every day.

the gene pool

We need to get murderers out of the gene pool. The way to do that is capital punishment or life imprisonment without parole. One less murderer running around loose and posing a danger to immortalists.

The photo is not of murderers however. The photo is of careless guys on the shallow end of the gene pool.

If it's not clear from the size of this photo, there's an electric BBQ grill on the centre table (with the beers-a telling sign!), hooked in to a power board that's floating on some plastic/rubber beach scuffs, and hooked in to an extension lead. Guess these guys never came to grips with basic science, huh?

%u201CThou Shalt Not Kill%u201D

- the best of the Ten Commandments. The Peace Churches have it right: no war. But the notable exception to this commandment is punishing murderers.

murder

People who put victimless crimes up there with murder have an unsavory political agenda.

And as for crimes with victims, we need to stop putting other crimes on the same level as murder. Not even treason and rape should be considered as evil as murder.

abortion

The editors of this lens include born-again Christians who refuse to go along with classifying abortion as murder because Jesus never talked about abortion and because anti-abortionists give the unborn priority over those of us who are already here. Anti-abortionists have an agenda which includes racist conservatism, denial of birth control to the poor [we all know that rich Christians fly off to Sweden for abortions if their daughter is raped], theocracy like the Islamic republics, destruction of public schools (because they want people to be stupid), and the end of rights for women. Women and young girls in particular, need rights because nations develop, reduce population, and progress only when females can read, write, vote, handle money, and hold political office. Not because women are better than men (they aren't) but because the alternative is seeing females as baby factories and objects to be raped. A waste of half the population. And Christian and Muslim fundamentalists laughably claim that they want to protect women. By blowing them up or throwing acid in their faces? This is the subtext of the abortion debate. The anti-abortionists want to control your privates and invade your privacy. And murder doctors, nurses, ministers, and anyone who gets in their way.

Kooks use their psychotic beliefs to justify killing people. Like the anti-abortionist who shot a preacher in the pulpit and justified it on the grounds that it was just manslaughter to kill a murderer. See what happens when the lives of people already here are devalued? Or some political or religious ideal is put above the lives of those already here? The slippery slope to Nazi death camps, the Killing Fields of Cambodia, the gulags of the Soviet Union, genocide, PETA nuts killing people for animal rights, terrorists justifying killing by citing a death-oriented religion, and a hundred other examples.

Indigenous People:

and why immortalists need to care about them

- In the Amazon basin, land thieves are still killing Amerindians and justifying it by saying that these fellow human beings are "savages". Those "savages" know about a fungus that can instantly cure blindness. That alone is worth respecting tribal land ownership. And cutting down the rain forests will kill us all anyway. All human life is interconnected and failing to respect human life that is here already results in the universe taking immediate retribution. We are just too dense as a species to notice the fatal statistics.

they know about the world outside the rain forest

but prefer their own way of life

They sometimes leave the rain forest and, as in the photo, ride buses and look around. Some tribes even hire lawyers to sue the people stealing the land they have had for thousands of years.

How much is your life worth?

To you, your life should have infinite value in monetary terms. And to other immortalists, your life and my life should have infinite value. This is what we need to teach to everyone. But here's the rub: Life that is already here. Not posterity. Not "unborn babies" because otherwise the kooks will give it priority over those of us who are already here.

mutual aid aocieties

The problem with the Howard Family model of organizing ourselves (at least until we immortalists are the majority) is that it pre-supposes that we are breeding long-lived children. Fine for the kiddies but what about us? This is about us living longer. We all know that our kids want to hammer the nails shut on our coffins so that they can take our stuff. Little bloodsucking vampires sucking the life out of us and stealing our best years. We'll fix 'em. We won't give birth to the little ingrates.

A better model than Heinlein's (Robert Heinlein is dead is case you didn't know) is the mutial aid society. Forming voluntary families of sorts. Not Facebook or MySpace "friends" that can be "unfriended" at the click of a mouse but life-long friends. That is, real friends.

Would you want to be in a life and death situaltion and you cannot depend on spouse (divorced or separated), parent, child, friend or neighbor? Of course not. So think about this.

Why immortalists have to become the majority

Imagine yourself a conservative Republican or some other worthless type who doesn't care about anybody but yourself. Yes, I know you want to kill your evil self but hold that thought until I've made my point.

You're unconscious and at the mercy of minimum wage liberal Democrat paramedics who realize that you are scum and pull the plug on you. Oh well . . .

Now imagine that you are an immortalist and you are surrounded by ephemerals eager to chop you up for body parts to be sold on thd black market. Get the point?

No?

I'll try again. You're unconscious. You are at the mercy of whoever comes along. The only way to make sure that everyone is sympathetic to your plight is to make sure that _EVERYONE_ is a fellow immortalist. We are sympathetic to keeping you alive by definition. If you die, the whole social contract is broken.

Impossible you say? Not really. The US Postal System operates on the honor system. Another example: until terrorists came along, even serial killers and mass murderers did not want to wipe out the whole humanb race. Even the nihilist Adolf Hitler wanted survivors (his Nazis). So even at our worst, humans do comprehend the idea that everybody is expected to do certain things or not do certain things.

To return to picking on hapless conservative Republicans as an example, you may not think you care about others but think in terms of enlightened self-interest (that Ayn Rand crap if you must). If you breathe polluted air and drink polluted water, you will get cancer and die. We all breathe the same air unless you want to live like a bubble boy (and that is prison).

We have to care about each other because we have no choice. If "they" die of a toxic environment, we die of toxins and you die of toxins. Once you realize that, then you are halfway to becoming an immortalist.

Now how do we turn everybody into an immortalist? That's another essay. Maybe next time.

The majority rules

so make sure the majority is immortalists.

You see a body laying or even lying on the ground. What do you do?

Call the police?

Or call a paramedic?

Ask the people of the Lower NInth Ward of New Orleans who survived Katrina and Rita only to be shot by cops and residents of higher ground.

The correct answer is, of course, call a paramedic. Police Officers can save you from criminals but, let's face facts. Some cops are corrupt, crooked, guilty of police brutality, and are tipped off when Internal Affairs is investigating them so that they can get their lies straight.

Police are trained to use deadly force and until they are regularly issued non-lethal weapons and given medical training, then one should not expect them to act like EMT's, paramedics, or emergency room doctors.

The Usual Criticism of Immortalism

The usual criticism of immortalism is that it is against nature or unnatural or contrary to the way nature intended. In other words, you're supposed to die and be buried in a thin pine box so that the worms can feed on you. Giving back to nature. Or you should plan on being cremated after death so that more land is not taken up by graveyards. Scatter your ashes someplace where plants can recycle the nutrients.

Now if you are an ephemeral, all this makes sense. Like in that movie Avatar, we are part of nature and should return our molecules to nature after our spirit has departed. I'm a staunch environmentalist and have a huge respect for ecology since the biosphere sustains us. No oxygen produced by trees and diatoms and no fresh water transpired into the atmosphere by rain forests and we humans would soon find it difficult to breathe and die of thirst. Unless of course we want to use expensive means to artificially manufacture oxygen and desalinate water. There are companies that do that and no doubt would like the destruction of the planet to continue in order to help their profits.

Now I am not going back to that hoary old concept that humans are separate from Nature and reject evolution like my fellow fundamentalist Christians do. That idea should have passed away with the Dark Ages. No, I see a third alternative: We immortalists are on a quest. We are like the longest lived creatures such as bristlecone pines and sequoias and redwoods that are still saplings when they are tens of thousands of years old. Evolution is evolving us toward a life form that lives forever but still is part of nature. After all, we drink water and excrete urine. We breathe oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide that plants in turn thrive on. So it is not as if we can't still be part of Nature. I for one, reject the transhumanist idea of "uploading" to machines or the internet. That is death. We all know of malfunctions. The most sophisticated machines are -- guess what? Modeled on nature, that's what.

Death is not part of life. Life is part of life. Death is part of death. Simple sets and subsets. And speaking of mathematics, I read some stuff when I was young about self-perpetuating systems. I am not talking about perpetual motion machines or other quackery rejected by the Patent Office. I am not talking about machines at all. See previous paragraph.

This is the future of immortalism. The present of immortalism is separating ourselves from life extensionists who are subversives who secretly accept the idea of death. They may want to live to one hundred or one hundred fifty - and then die. That's not us. We don't want to die at all. The future of immortalism is looking much further ahead. To safety engineering the universe, to life assurance (not life insurance), to economics not based on old paradigms (such as the growth and overpopulation that is lowering our quality of life), to increasing the value of human life, to medical resurrection beyond the simple CPR we do now, to the far future. This is the future of immortalism.

As for that speech: "Death is part of life. Predators feast on prey, thinning herds and improving the health of the greater ecosystem. Carrion fertilizes the fields. Fauna bloom and provide sustenance for the herds. And, so, the cycle continues." Fine if you're a predator - for a while. Lions don't live that long. And then predators become food for worms. See first paragraph above. Or perhaps you'd like to be part of a doomed herd. Like ephemerals. Circle of life? Or is the human race going in circles? It should not be a choice between nature or a plastic synthetic existence inside a machine. Inside a machine would be death. Living the brief existence of a mayfly is also death. Mayflies live a maximum of twenty-four hours. We need a third choice. Natural but infinite.

And do you really want Disney to make life and death choices for you?

third generation immortalism

Safety engineering the cosmos. Not just this universe. The world is a dangerous place. We need to make it safer.

Living forever is only a first step. Eternal youth must also be a goal or you just have decrepit people who live forever. I was watching a news report where public officials from Finland or some Scandinavian country were visiting Japan to examine an automated wheelchair bed that enables a senior to sit up and move around without ever real leaving the bed. The system was modular with the wheelchair part docking into the rest of the bed. With European countries facing aging populations and not enough young people to work as nurses and orderlies and assisted lving attendants; the Europeans are turning to robots to look after their old--the majority. Sad. Like those blobs who are all that is left of humanity in the movie WALL-E. [See comments about lard asses elsewhere in this lens]

I am not anti-old people. Heck, we're all old. Even babies are getting older. If young people don't get older, then we call it death. I am not anti-old people. I am pro-exercise and pro-low carb diet and pro-good night's sleep and pro-all the things that will keep us young.

But eternal youth and safety engineering the world around us (what Republicans call the Nanny State since they hate wearing seat belts and motorcycle helmets) is only the second step. Safety education is part of this. Want to climb a mountain? Risky. But use ropes. No one will catch you if you climb freehand. Want to jump out of a plane? Then make sure the plane is on the ground if you are not going to use a parachute. Understand that no one is talking about giving up fun or taking calculated risks. We're talking about common sense and precautions. Leave that show Jackass to, well, jackasses. I used to enjoy America's Funniest Videos and Max-X until I realized that I was laughing at people being hurt. I wouldn't like it if people laughed at me slipping on ice and throwing out my back. I would much rather concern and somebody getting the paramedics. In other words, I grew up and re-educated my sense of humor. Look around this lens. Immortalists have a sense of humor. We just don't think that death or injury or illness or decline is funny.

[Unless it happens to a Hitler or Pol Pot or Stalin or Mao or any of the dictators who kill millions. They have it coming.]

Third generation is where our health technology reaches the point where we can hold the Grim Reaper back alltogether. In the original Star Trek TV series, there was an episode called "The Squire of Gothos" where a dandy had powers like the Q of Star Trek:The Next Generation. The Star Trek novels flat out state that Trelaine or Tremaine or whatever his name was a member of the Q Continuum. The point of this Trekker or Trekkist trivia is that the Squire of Gothos had a machine that protected him and turned his wishes into its commands. Sort of a robotic genie.

Now we've seen Fantasy Island and we've all seen enough novels and movies to know that if dictators got their wishes then BILLIONS instead of millions would die. Murder mysteries and slasher movies and horror movies tell you that The Bible got it right. The heart of humans is desperately wicked. Another episode of Star Trek had a colony of aliens who thought they were Greek gods and they in fact had psychic powers that enabled them to play with non-psychics like toys. I think that episode was called "Plato's Stepchildren". Fortunately, Kirk and Spock come up with a drug that makes them more powerful than the tyrannical 'Academicians' and fortunately "General Trelane, Retired" (I just looked it up on Wikipedia) was controlled by other Q (I won't spoil it if you have not seen the episode) who ethically don't believe in torturing the less advanced.

Yes. Part of immortality education will have to include ethics along with the important attitude: "Hey jerk! Don't call the police. Call the paramedics. That guy is not dead. He's in shock or in a coma." That kind of education.

Robotics and AI to protect us from death not kill us like in the Terminator movies. This is the third generation of immortalism.

Howard Clinic

When I read "Time Enough For Love", I thought the main character was a fool to go into a war zone (he time travels to the World War One era) because he didn't want his relatives to think he was a coward. Needless to say but I'll say it, let ephemerals march off to war and die. They are better at dying than us immortalists.

What if they call us cowards? Let them. We are cowards if "coward" is code for "enough sense not to get oneself killed". And people who slander and defame and libel us will be dead soon enough. That whole lifespan thing.

One more comment on the folly of war. I've never heard a Vietnam vet complain about draftees during the Sixties running off to Canada to evade the draft. I'm sure there are some who do complain about them but most Vets have other things on their minds. Like dealing with PTSD or Agent Orange or injuries that still haven't healed and tangling with the VA. I don't think most vets have time to hate anyone.

What does all this have to do with Howard Clinics? Nothing. Just read the book.

Time Enough For Love

We need an Immortalist Medical Association

this is why

The hot topic at medical schools is dealing with death. Instead of taking extraordinary measures to keep you alive, "end of life" is now what physicians are supposed to discuss with families. The Tea Party racist gun-toting b-stards (notice how neutral I am) have pretty much everything wrong but their concern about the system "pulling the plug on granny" is a valid concern. Society is accepting this warped idea that you need to sign a DNR (A do not resuscitate document, often called a living will) if you are above a certain age. They ought to call it a dying will. Your parents don't want to be a burden to you.

Wake Up!

You're supposed to be a burden to your children. They are a burden to you when you are raising them so they should gladly accept the responsibility when they need to look after you. Outside the twisted nation of The United States, in other countries young people actually consider it an honor to be asked by the rest of the family to look after grandfather or great-aunt. Why is the USA so f-cked up on this point?

Enough of the rant. We need our own Immortalist Medical Association. We need our own immortalist medical schools. And we need our own Howard Clinics.

We need our own Howard Planets.

Future Old People

even ninety year olds go running

these are seniors

believe it or not

Imagine if they were in better shape. And think about those people who sit around and refuse to exercise.

community

both an internet and a physical community is in the works

Immortality

most people -- even immortalists -- have no clue as to what true immortality is

immortality

The Immortality Project: * diet, exercise, & lifestyle
* How to live a dramatically longer, healthier life
Will for immortality: Will for immortalityAs described in section survival, a fundamental concept of Metasystem Transition Theory is that of immortality. We understand immortality as the limit of stability, infinite survival, duration, persistence, and lack of change or variety.
Imminst.org - Immortality Institute | Advocacy & Research For Unlimited Lifespans: Relentless Improvement
Immortality: The highest level of attainment within the Taoist path is "Immortality." To become an Immortal is something like becoming a Buddha, for a Buddhist; or becoming a Mahasiddha or an Avadhuta - a liberated soul - within the traditions of Hinduism or Advaita Vedanta. It's a big deal!

[I'm a born-again Fundamentalist Christian myself but I recognize that all humans have a common foe -- Death.]
immortality | Popular Science: Humanity's search for the secrets to immortality has inspired Ray Kurzweil's Singularity vision and DARPA's hunt for ageless synthetic beings.

[What! My tax dollars funding singularity psychos who want to turn us all into soulless machines! Shut it down! Throw them into prison! Off with their heads! Wait. Some of the research is biotech. Let's keep an eye on them. Keep the research in useful areas and not that transhumanist uploading bullsh-t.]
The Quest For Immortality - 60 Minutes - CBS News: 60 Minutes on CBS News: The Quest For Immortality - Want To Live 500 Years? One Scientist Says It May Be Possible One Day

[Only five hundred? Sigh. At least it is progrerss.]

immortalism

Immortalism: one group ideas
Biological immortality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: great article!
SfUI: Society for Universal Immortalism: The Society for Universal Immortalism is a progressive religion that holds rationality, reason, and the scientific method as central tenets of our faith.

[I'm still waiting for a church that has physical immortality as its central tenet. It's what Jesus taught. It's what Enoch, Elijah and possibly Moses and Apostle John achieved]
Life Extension: Transhuman Page
I will live forever, or die trying.
One of the most important tasks of Transhumanism is the pursuit of Life Extension and eventual immortality, since aging and death represents are two of the most immediate hinders for total self-transformation and personal freedom.

[I hate these transhumanist b-stards but I still listen to them occasionally in case they occasionally say something useful.]
The Omega Point and Life in the Universe: This is the search engine description of this link:

"Universal Immortalism. If the Omega Point theory is speculative, universal immortalism (the idea that death can be completely undone) is even more speculative."

[Sounds uselss right? Actually I'm glad I didn't dismiss this because when I went to the site it had very useful things to say for a futurist like myself. One stupid argument against immortality is that the universe will end someday. This page points out that we live in a multiverse. Physicists have long known that but shows like Sliders and Fringe are popularizing the concept.]
Cryonics: i threw this in as wry humor. Okay if you want to trust ephemerals to re-animate you after freezing and waiting. But you know that your editor has a low opinion of cryonics. A last resort at best because it takes your choice away and puts it in the hands of your children who natch want to kill you for your money -- at least in non-immortalist families if you happen to be the only immortalist in a family of ephemerals.

Be Happy!

It's good for your health.

Attitude- Happy is Healthy!

How you look on the outside, is a SIGNIFICANT reflection of how you feel on the inside.

HERE ARE A FEW THINGS THAT CAN CHANGE NOT ONLY YOUR BODY, BUT YOUR MIND AND SOUL:

Achieve not only material riches, but inner wealth of happiness as well
- Improve your health and even cure the body of many common ailments
- Get the promotion you want, the raise you need, the recognition you deserve
- Build the confidence to do the things you never dared - but always wanted - to do in life
- Develop friendships and enhance existing relationships with co-workers, family, and friends
- Strengthen your marriage or primary love relationship
- Overcome phobias, compulsions, and bad habits
- Learn the secret of "eternal youth" and much, much more!

[source -- http://www.jennafenton.com/?p=29]

No. Jenna Fenton is not the fitness trainer of anyone here and this is not an endorsement because she is not an immortalist or even a life extensionist. She just had an interesting biography.

Avoid friends whose friends are ephemerals.

Their negative emotions, their negative words, their diseases, and their violent behaviors are contagiouis. Scientific studies prove that you are even influenced by friends of friends of friends out to three degrees of separation.

The friend of a friend on each end of the police lineup is smoking. Immortalists don't smoke coffin nails. Of any kind. Not tobacco, not marijuana, and not any alternative.

The photo used to illustrate this idea is of a post punk band out of Tallahassee Florida USA called Friends of Friends. If we're going to use them to make a point that has nothing to do with their music, then we might as well give them a plug. At their MySpace site, their logo is a skeleton guzzling a can of beer. Enough said.

speaking of friends of friends of friends . . .

. . . will Mark Zuckerberg win the Oscar?

Facebook

In several cases below, there are multiple possible links to their home page, wall, or other page. If we do not have the best introductory link to your group, then you need to tell us. Toni is on Facebook so it is not like it is hard to contact her.

Also note that the URL in most cases pops up the same description: "Facebook is a social utility blah blah blah" so we tried to add a short description but you need to describe yourself or your group and not leave it up to us. Apparently we are not the only ones who find Facebook software occasionally a challenge.

Also, the editor exercised editorial judgment and did not include Rastafarians (because they go on about Haile Selassie and he's dead), gurus who can't get past religious ideas and deal with practical matters, and vampire freaks because drinking blood is dangerous (too many blood-borne pathogens), stupid, illegal, psychotic, and evil.

That tribe in Africa that mixes cow blood and milk is not noted for long lifespans but at least they are not evil.

Singularitarians and transhumanists are included in this lens because they sometimes have useful ideas. However, keep your guard up when they start talking about uploading, bionic/cyborg implants, and machine bodies. They could be working for some immoral (that's immoral not immortal) black ops agency building super-soldiers and any informed American knows that the US government has done some evil sh-t [Abu Ghraib, massacres, Japanese-Americans in concentration camps while Japanese-American soldiers distinguished themselves on the battlefield, testing biowar germs in NYC subways, killing Native American activists, CIA selling drugs in black ghettos, etc.]

Immortalists | Facebook: Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
Immortalists | Facebook: Welcome to the Facebook Community Page about Immortalists, a collection of shared knowledge concerning Immortalists.
Vegan Immortalists | Facebook: vegans (formerly known as vegetarians)
Umræðuefni: Immortality: "Some of the organizations which are involved in this work are the Committee for the Elimination of Death, Foundation of Infinite Survival, Theta Seminars, War Against Death, among others."

some of this page is not in English
The Immortality Research Center | Facebook: A new organization of immortalists dedicated to ...
Physical Immortality! The Mystery Revealed! | Facebook: Physical Immortality is the key theme of the book, "The Victorious Battle of Christ in Hell! By Rose Beloved.

[One assumes that they are Christian immortalists]
Immortalism | Facebook: Welcome to the Facebook Community Page about Immortalism, a collection of shared knowledge concerning Immortalism.
Singularitarian Immortalism | Facebook: Check this out if you have any doubts that singularitarians want to turn us all into Borg.
Physical Immortalism | Facebook: Welcome to the Facebook Community Page about Physical Immortalism, a collection of shared knowledge concerning Physical Immortalism.
Links on "Immortality Institute - ImmInst.org" | Facebook: Links on "Immortality Institute - ImmInst.org"
Immortalists Forever! Discussion Board | Causes on Facebook: Our mission is to conquer the blight of involuntary death
Biological immortality | Facebook: Welcome to the Facebook Community Page about Biological immortality, a collection of shared knowledge concerning Biological immortality.
REASONS FOR IMMORTALITY: An Inquisitive Mind
The Scientific Conquest Of Death: Some of the deepest prejudices of professional biologists concerning immortality are certainly false. Aging is not a universal.
"I heard that black womens cells are immortal and can live outside of the body, and are indeed immortal.": You heard wrong.

There is, however, one human being who is biologically immortal on a technicality, and her name is Henrietta Lacks.

Johns-Hopkins screwed her family out of royalties because they apparently think (like a lot of people in biotech) that you can own humans or human DNA or cells at any rate. I smell slavery.
The Turritopsis Nutricula has the secret to immortality. | Facebook: At first, the editor thought this was some multilevel marketer selling some quack potion. Glad we checked this one out.

Immortalists

a club

To join, use the password: immortalist

This is in "beta" so chill out and expect problems. No sweat.

You can use it to discuss immortalist books, to socialize, to discuss immortalism in religion, to discuss immortalist politics, to discuss scientific breakthroughs, to organize conventions and conferences, to have fun, anything legal is permitted. Knock yourself out (that's an American expression, don't hurt yourself).

Immortalists-Qlubb: Welcome to Immortalists Qlubb!

immortalist news

if the news in this module gets too off topic, please let the editor know. There is no full time staff on this end so we need whatever feedback we can get.

Immortal Illusions: Should We Stop Trying to Live Forever?: And yet, as the earth's fragility becomes more painfully obvious, we also see the increasing popularity of the claim that the biological immortality of individual human beings has never seemed more possible. Evidence for the possibility of infinite ...
James Roberts looms as biggest threat to James Magnussen's bid for Olympic ...: Two mates who have competed against each other for their entire careers, are heading to the London Games, with Roberts looming as the biggest threat to Magnussen's bid for Olympic immortality. Can Magnussen be beaten in the 100m freestyle?
Chelsea, Bayern Battle for Immortality: By Jonathan Isaiah, 19 May 2012 Didier Drogba and Petr Cech were the heroes for Chelsea as they won the Champions League. ( Resource: Chelsea's Heroes - Champions League Cup Winners Thirty two teams started the battle for glory from September last year ...
Sixth round is speller's swan song: Well, in the Jainism faith, a Tirthankara is a person who has attained immortality through enlightenment. And in the sixth round of Thursday's Scripps National Spelling Bee, Nabeel spelled it ?Tirtankara.? In other words, Nabeel ? the Buffalo News' ...

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Future Dentistry

or "Do You Really Want Your Teeth to Fall Out?"

Dentistry is still in the Dark Ages. During the Civil War, the surgeons did not bother to try and save an injured arm or leg. They simply amputated. Dentists are still at the stage where their first impulse is to extract rather than save. Unless you like a mouth full of toxic fakes, this section is for you,.

More to come

this doesn't work

it may even make things worse

Without a Vision

the people (that's you) perish.

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immortalist friends

Immortality Meetup Groups - Immortality Meetups: Immortality meetups around the world. The largest two are the Cryonics Toronto meetup group of Toronto, Ontario and The Immortals of
Brussels, Belgium. Auckland, New Zealand and Bedford, Massachusetts have at least one immortalist. Besides the Canadians, Belgians, Kiwis and Americans; Zimbabwe, Malaysia and the UK are also places where you can find immortalists.
Tibetan 5 Rites Deepak Chopra Immortality Meetup Groups - Tibetan 5 Rites Deepak Chopra Immortality Meetups: Helps groups of people with shared interests plan meetings and form offline clubs in local communities around the world about Tibetan 5 Rites Deepak Chopra Immortality
cryonics/immortalist support network - LONGECITY: I have found over the past few years that there is no support at all for cryonicists or immortalists other than maybe a few forums like this on the I...

immortalist dating services

(well, it is all I could find)

Vancouver Immortalist Association | Facebook goes out of their way to state: "We are not a dating service." You should ask them two questions:
1. Why not? and
2. Well if you're not, then where can I find an immortalist dating service? 'Cause all I'm finding is immoral dating services for bloody vampires and Highlanders into decapitation.

There is no immortalist dating service of which I am aware. Sounds like a business opportunity for an immortalist entrepreneur.

If you have an immortalist business, then I will be happy to list it in a directory.

OkCupid | Take Are you an Immortalist?: sample from this site: "Nice job! You scored 44 out of 72 possible Immortalist points and only -4 Deathist points out of 65 ."
immortalist Love playing softball, tennis, theater, movie: sample from this site: "Intent immortalist is looking for a relationship. "

schools for immortalists

Taoism in China is one religion that can respect what we immortalists are trying to do. Unfortunately, Chinese Taoists are in a nation with massive overpopulation (almost two billion, a third of humanity) and so I would not expect their government to be supportive - but I would be happy to be wrong on this. Someone want to contact the Chinese government and ask them; "What is their official stand on immortalism and life extension?"

Back to school for immortality and life extension studies - Where? - LONGECITY: I am looking for suggestions on which colleges, universities, and other programs of study are best suited for me to look into... Background: I am 38...

Fawkes school for immortality

Editor's note: I threw this in partly as a joke and partly to bring up a serious point. If even one percent of the energy that goes into making horror movies and vampire novels and movies instead went into real immortalism like the subject of this lens, then how many centuries of progress would we have made? We probably would already have a cure for aging and people would already be living past one hundred fifteen and still looking like they were in their twenties. This is why I dislike vampire nonsense. A literal waste of life.

Will she agree to go to D.C.?
The bloodsuckers in DC are worse than those at Guy Fawkes School for Conspiracy and Treason.

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immortalist gated communities and immortalist neighborhoods

Meet Mike Soloviev: In my near future I would like to live in a kind of "Immortalist Village" -- a community of cryonicists, who decided to settle together nearby a cryonics facility in order to get a fast and reliable cryonics service.
Transtopia -- Island Project: This is the first phase of a project to create the world's first cryonics / immortalist village -- Ventureville (named after the Society For Venturism, a non-profit organization which "advocates and promotes the worldwide conquest of death and the continuation and ...

Editor's note: You know I never miss an opportunity to point out that transhumanists are a dangerous clutch of vampiric mad scientists (mad as in insane) eager to give up their humanity and become robots and automatons for evil AI's. And you know that in the previous sentence I just pointed out the salient facts. Nevertheless, I report on their distracting activities to warn the innocent not to upload to the Internet where hackers and malware developers will delete you out of a hellish online non-existence. Erasers will see their work in taking you into oblivion as their religious duty. It is nirvana after all. Simpler just to go to Iraq or Pakistan and get killed by an improvised explosive device. Or, better yet, make your death count for something. Join a good cause like fighting global warming or trying to get the Patriot Act repealed. A Tea Party sociopath or a SWAT team marksman will gun you down like a dog but at least the relatives you leave behind will be able to brag about what a great American you were. You'll get a different kind of immortality - a statue of you and essays written by schoolchildren. But becoming vaporware? Even YOU will forget you. Let alone everyone else.
creating an Immortalist Town - LONGECITY: Wouldn't it be cool to create an Immortalist town? We could pick a place in the world and all of us Immortalists could relocate to there so we co...
Immortalist Village | Facebook: The project aimed to create "Immortalist Village" --
a community of cryonicists, who decided to settle together nearby a cryonics facility in order to get a fast and reliable cryonics service.

immortalist families

Editor's note: One thing that I have yet to see either mainstream brain researchers or cryonicists acknowledge is the existence of a second brain. Not all your memory is stored in the brain. Several parts of the body below the neck store memory - most notably in the stomach area. So decapitate and throw away the rest of the body if you like but the reaniminators can't restore what was not frozen.

Alcor: "Of course, money is not the only reason for signing up immediately.
Consider safety. Everyone is subject to accidents. If you have a fatal
accident, and you are not signed up, you are dead. (Unless you have rich,
determined, immortalist family members!) Even if you don't smoke or drink
and you always wear your seat-belt and look both ways before crossing the
street, you can still die suddenly. It happens to people all the time.
Are you willing to bet your life that it won't happen to you?"
Interview with Alcor member David Croft: "Many of my atheist, humanist, objectivist, and immortalist friends do not have children. I recommend that you have them if you can. Children are blessings we give to ourselves."
Subject: CryoNet #26632 - #26647 - msg#00015 List: culture.science.cryogenics: "Also, with the brain-only approach, non-immortalist
relatives can bury or cremate an apparently 'intact'
corpse if so desired (no more mutilated than after a
standard autopsy), as opposed to a headless one (the
horror!) or nothing at all."

Howard families

this is a concept introduced by Robert Anson Heinlein in the novel Time Enough for Love. Basically, people who live long form families and they only have children with other long lived people. This does nothing for an immortalist with bad genes who wants to live forever. Since about 100% of us have some genetic problem, the Howard Family concept helps your grandchildren's grandchildren to live long but, inevitably, they will die of old age too.

immortalists at home

children & immortality

Progeria

find a cure for it and we are half way to living past 115

Progeria: Comprehensive overview

sleep

warning: minor excursion into geometry and physics

The human body is simply not designed for sleep. It would be nice if God had put some thought into this problem. For all I know, maybe He has but no one has brought me up to speed on it. Anyway, the problem is this. Sleep consists of taking a three-dimensional object (you) and pressing it against a two-dimensional object, a plane (your bed) by use of gravity.

If you sleep on your face, by morning you will have wrinkles and creases in your face. After a lifetime of sleeping in this position, you have a wrinkled face. Of course, daytime worrying and lack of sunscreen will also wrinkle you. Warning to young people: don't get old! However, that is easier said than done because stopping the clock generally is a matter of death or relativity. [The smart ones in class immediately understand that time dilation compensation technology or TDCT used in intergalactic travel might have relevance to immortality. Reason alone to pursue IGT.] If you are a vain woman like me, then you don't want wrinkles so you train yourself to sleep in another position.

If you sleep on your back, you will snore and snoring damages your brain through sleep apnea. Snoring is not funny to the person who snores. If you encounter people who think snoring is funny, then you need to get away from such people because whether they are family or "friends" and you are living with them or visiting them, they will not stop you from snoring. Understand that when you are asleep, you are at your most vulnerable. If they hear you snoring and don't stop you from snoring, they are killing you by neglect. Snoring damages your brain. Most people snore. The majority. It is just that some people live alone. Some snore quietly and so a family member in another bedroom does not hear them. This is why the problem is not high profile. But if your spouse who shares a bed with you puts in earplugs rather than taking you to a sleep specialist, get a divorce because this is slow murder no different from slow poisoning.

So you avoid sleeping on your face for vanity. You avoid sleeping on your back, to avoid dying in your sleep from apnea (the eventual progression of snoring). What's left is sleeping on your side. Solution? Not so fast. Not only can you wrinkle your face sleeping on your side (satin pillowcases ease creases that lead to wrinkles) but you can snore on your side. You can also snore sleeping on your face. I know this for a fact.

The body is simply not designed for sleeping. So you are expecting me to give up. You should know me better than that if you read my stuff often. Let's get outside the box.

I remember a Batman movie where the girlfriend wakes up during the night (unusual because Bruce Wayne and Batman are nocturnally active) and sees Bruce Wayne hanging by gravity boots (also known as air kicks or inversion boots) and rocking himself to sleep. The girlfriend instantly sensed a troubled soul. The point of the scene in the movie was not that Batman was weird but that he was emotionally traumatized as a child by seeing his parents gunned down. He began to identify with bats as survivors. Bats hold down mosquito populations but most people instinctively fear bats and destroy bat caves (unless wildlife authorities can protect them). That is the survival part.. When I started writing this module, I remembered that scene in that movie because I wondered: How can anyone sleep upside down? Your blood would rush to your head. However, people who practice yoga do headstands for health reasons so it may be worth exploring. As you all know, bats hang upside down not just to sleep even though they are perfectly able to function right side up.

We have to find better furniture than a conventional bed for sleeping. Waterbeds were a step in the right direction but they are a first step not a final step. I don't know the research on the long-term benefits (if any) of gel-filled or mud-filled mattresses. Nor do I know if anyone has experimented with a non-Newtonian fluid in a mattress.

Let's get outside the box again. If you have seen Fringe, then you have seen Walter taking naps in the sensory deprivation tank (aka womb tank). Some of you will raise legitimate concerns about desquamation from soaking in water too long. There are two obvious solutions: wear an extremely comfortable wetsuit (or scuba gear) or apply a skin protectant like Vaseline. For sure, your moisturizer regimen will be different from most people!

A really expensive way to sleep with nothing but air touching you (sort of) is sleeping in a vertical wind tunnel like what indoor skydivers use. This is the sort of thing that would give immortalists a reputation as a lifestyle only for billionaires. You probably know that I see immortalists as the coming majority simply because the lifestyle won't work if only a minority adopts it. Let's get past this minor objection and appreciate rich people as the people who risk dangerous things that become safer over time. Prices will come down because of mass production and economies of scale. In the meantime, sleeping on air would require jumpsuit and helmet or at the end of eight hours you would have windburn from skydiving naked. You would need earplugs to keep from going deaf. And you would need high income not only to install the vertical wind tunnel in your home or McMansion (one heck of a home improvement project!) but to pay the energy bill from keeping it going for eight hour stretches. Some people sleep nine hours. Some people sleep four hours. Whatever.

Let's really get outside the box. Astronauts have said that sleeping in zero gravity is the best night of sleep that they ever had. Not sleeping on the moon which has gravity but in space with no gravity. Once spaceship builders develop artificial gravity, then perhaps zero-G beds will become commonplace. Kind of makes you wonder if Homo sapiens really evolved on Earth. Our natural day is 25 hours. An Earth day is 24 hours. In the distant past before the dinosaurs, it was a faster 23 hours but the rotation of the Earth has slowed down over aeons. So maybe the human race is from the distant future and evolved in space rather than on any planetary surface. This has nothing to do with sleep. I am just curious about what made the circadian rhythms that govern sleep patterns.

Some people think that we will evolve beyond sleep. I look at creatures like sharks that sleep little if at all and think: Do we really want to be a race of cranky sleep-deprived frenzy-feeders? Great whites and other sharks do not seem to me to be either intellectually advanced nor something I would want to imitate. Even your computer needs downtime or the software gets messed up. Since we evolved from apes up in trees to Cavemen down in caves all the way up to the present, life has become more complex not less. That means more time for our minds to process the day and our bodies to recuperate from the day. No one can deny that modern life can be stressful, and the way to deal with stress is sleep and rest.

However sleep and rest are not the same. I will take up the subject of rest in a coming update of this lens.

zero-G bed

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"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

---Douglas Adams
(1952 - 2001)
from
Last Chance to See

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Humans have been dying for millennia. And now, when the means to defeat death are coming into view, very few people are seizing this opportunity.

Why won't God heal amputees?

Unless you know of a documented case of human regeneration on the scale of an entire arm or leg, the atheists ask a valid question.

If you are one of my regular readers, then you know that I am a born-again Fundamentalist Christian. You also know that I have a low tolerance for my fellow Christians who flunked science and then shoot off their mouths about twaddle like creationism, intelligent design, and denying global warming. You may even know that I have said that I respected atheists because they ask good questions. But you probably didn't believe it until now. I was exploring the connections between Lucifer Satan (the Devil) and Republicans. Naturally, the links led repeatedly and directly to an atheist website which encourages people to kill Jesus when He returns. According to the website, I as a Christian was supposed to be outraged and insulted. I was laughing my head off. Anger at the makers of these groups of sites was the last thing on my mind. The material was funny as well, hell, and thought-provoking. So I bookmarked it so that I could lead other Christians astray (sorry, I can't resist pushing paranoia buttons). I am sure that I did not need to say that going to an atheist website was going "astray". Most intellectually unsophisticated Christians are going to think that anyway without any prompting on my part. But the smarter ones (the ones I am talking to) will get the point I am making. For everyone else, let me break this down into simple terms:

1. Every species is capable of regeneration, from bacteria to humans. Maybe God obeys the laws of nature that He created give regeneration as a gift mainly to lower species. About the highest up the evolutionary ladder that regeneration of legs goes is the amphibians.
2. Maybe God does not do miracles like He did in Biblical times because we now have modern medicine and don't need supernatural events disrupting natural events.
3. Maybe I am making excuses for God. That's not sacrilege or disrespect. I am engaged in honest philosophical inquiry and God is an adult who understands that and He will not strike me dead.
4. Actually until just a few short years ago, surgeons routinely threw away a damaged spleen as if it were a vestigial organ like tonsils and the appendix. Turns out that the spleen is the organ responsible for regeneration of organs. I know that the human liver can regrow if physically cut but I do not know if this is because the spleen is intervening. {By the way, tonsils perform an immune function and the appendix is a reservoir for poisons and certain germs like those in yogurt that the body finds useful.}
5. Maybe one of those New Age alternative health or holistic medical approaches will find a way to re-awaken the human body's hidden regenerative powers. One can hope so because turning ourselves into gadgets and Borg is appetizing only to jack-holes like the trans-humanists who are eager to surrender their humanity and become the machine that that group Rage Against The Machine rages against.
6. As to whether God exists, I am not sure that it is an important question. Either God exists or He doesn't. I take a non-agnostic approach. Act as if both positions are true. Agnostics are not sure and have abandoned both religion and, to some extent (I don't really believe it though) atheism. My immortalism is based on not wanting to die. I do not care if there is life after death. I would rather not find out the hard way like 100% of my fellow humans have found out so far. Enoch, Elijah and perhaps one of the Apostles never saw death. I want to be like them. There is supposed to be a fourth (the so-called Wandering Jew). I like life. It beats death.
7. God and no God are not mutually exclusive conditions of existence. No law says they are. Look at physics before you question my logic. There are sub-particles that both exist and don't exist -- depending. Mathematics has even had to adjust. Up until the time of Einstein, science had to obey the laws of mathematics. Then instances happened where mathematics had to adjust to the laws of science. Proof and evidence trump mathematics. And if you study higher mathematics, then you understand why. There are areas of mathematics where the layman must think 1 + 1 = 3. It doesn't but even today some flat earth politicians who can't wrap their heads around the non-repeating decimal pi. How can you leave in one direction and return from the opposite direction.? Easy. Circumnavigate the globe. But someone who believes in a Flat Earth will never comprehend that fact. I hash through all this science, math, politics, religion because I have heard scientists talking about proof that God exists in the work they do. This at a time when atheism is growing from a tiny minority to a sizable minority.
8. The atheists say often that religion is the cause of death. Historically true but most of the bloodletting of Christianity is gone. Protestants and Catholics have stopped fighting in Northern Ireland and abortion clinic bombers have been less homicidal lately. Most of the blood is spilled by Muslims against other Muslims and against everyone else. But let us remember that the truly high death tolls (in the millions) have been masterminded by atheists in the Soviet Union, China, and other communist hell holes such as Burma, Tibet, Cambodia and In Africa. You Christians should be quick to point out that Atheists and Muslims kill on a mass scale. We Christians are trying to grow up and grow past that phase of immaturity.
9. I can't speak for all Christians worldwide but I will attempt to explain why American Christians are the way they are. Whether Baptist or Catholic or other denominations, most escaped persecution in Europe. (Mormons in turn were persecuted by Christians on this continent) The result of all this running and escape was a nation of people with a deep distrust of government oppression. So naturally Americans made the small government in the time of George Washington the Big Government of today whose military gives weapons to local police to kill the 99% (that's you). Is is hard to find a dividing line or border between conservatives and Christians in America. We know that conservatives are mean, ignorant and racist because they have historically supported the KKK and are anti-science and anti-education. But after hearing the mantra "liberalism is bad" since the 1960's (motivated by a deep hatred of blacks, civil rights workers, kids who served in Viet Nam, kids who didn't serve in Viet Nam, women and anyone who wasn't a John Bircher) it is no wonder that fifty years of hearing that to be a liberal was the worst thing possible actually brainwashed quite a few mindless Americans. So when a Christian was asked what he or she stood for at the end of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st Century, they looked at the homosexuals squirming and mincing about half-naked in leather belts and not much else (and bragging about fisting and other jollies). The Christians then looked at the people waving flags and wearing nice clothes and compared them to the hordes with tattoos and metal studs in their noses, tongues and genitals. Is anyone but an idiot surprised that Christians sided with the well-dressed devil-worshiping Conservative Republicans? They didn't know they were devil worshipers and still don't but they just didn't want their sons and daughters around Hell's Angels, drug addicts, and AIDS patients -- which is how conservatives characterize liberal Democrats. You know the people Rush Limbaugh buys his drugs from. Now this is an unfair and grossly oversimplified description of the American landscape. But it isn't off by much. Christians want respectability after centuries of being fed to lions and being on the point of a gladiator's sword. We Christians have that in our DNA the same as Jews have exile to Babylon, destruction of their temples, pogroms, and the Nazi Holocaust in their DNA. The problem is, of course, that Christians have jumped into bed with the Antichrist, 666 and The Beast. Here is the proof: Conservative Republicans want law and order so that they can bring back slavery in the form of incarcerating all blacks or at least giving all black Americans a criminal record so that they cannot vote in elections. The Republican wilding under Dubya resulted in the Patriot Act, Homeland Security and cameras everywhere. Mind control and torture was already in the arsenal of the CIA under Project MKULTRA and the School of the Americas. Dick Cheney encouraged the spread of CIA prisons worldwide so that the arsenal of democracy would become the arsenal of cryptocracy. Christians have a suspicion of Big Government but as I have said Conservative Republicans have demanded the build up of the military and the intelligence agencies and the police (apparently ignorant of the fact that DoD, spies & FBI are the biggest part of government).
10. Christians act contrary to their own interests by voting for Conservative Republicans. Look in a Chick tract and you will see what happens to Christians during the Tribulation. The law and order Big Government advocated by Conservative Republicans drags away the hapless Christian to a torture chamber to be water boarded by Dick Cheney -- if you are lucky. More likely you get your head cut open and psycho-surgery done on your brain like River Tam. Or you might simply disappear, never to be heard of again. Probably you will suffer years of unspeakable torture before your heart gives out and they can't shock you back alive. Welcome to America. Who needs the Russia of the KGB when our own torturers are so much worse? So don't speak out. Not even in those free speech zones they set up blocks away from any TV cameras. Why bother to speak up. Rush Limbaugh and his ignorant ditto heads will just drown you out anyway. And the only candidates running are the Gestapo approved minions of Karl Rove on the right and the loser jellyfish invertebrates without any backbone on the left. Can't get anything done because of gridlock? It could not possibly be because the GOP obstructs everything -- even their own programs presented back to them.
11. So politics is hopeless. The truth or what you are supposed to feel so that a tiny plutocracy can vote out of proportion to its numbers? Whatever the case, religion (Christianity in this case) drives politics. You turn away from politics and retreat into navel-gazing. And you find that empty too. You have to eat too much to fill the void. You have to overindulge in watching or playing sports or exercise to fill the void. You watch too much TV, play too many video games, spend too much time on the internet, and play too much music to fill the void. You spend years at meditation, yoga or Zen and find only void -- which should not be surprising because the yogis and Zen masters tell you ahead of time to empty your mind. And that you should seek nirvana, oblivion, void. You are lazy and so you take drugs for instant void. You take enough drugs and you will be doing a lot of voiding in the bathroom. You can't avoid the void. So Christians believe in God. Atheists claim that it is a not so adult version of Santa Claus.
12. Why believe in God? The alternative for many is too terrible to contemplate. Just an empty universe which astronomers and cosmologists say is getting emptier by the minute. The horrible power of Big Government can swoop down like a Satan and grab you at any moment and drag you off to a chamber of horrors and no God will answer your prayer to somehow send rescue. And if you die, there is no heaven. Just oblivion as you don't discover that life meant nothing. There may be a hell where ghosts (disembodied spirits) wander about in misery but certainly no heaven. Life means nothing. Life is nothing. Just biochemical cascades. Computers at least have data in them but no measurable information in your DNA. You are just a meaningless link in a meaningless chain. Isn't atheism great? All those famous atheists have brought happiness to people who are also dead and forgotten and dust. The atheists are quite justified and correct to point out the foibles of Christianity. Someone has to. Perhaps only Christians have this collective nightmare of Tribulation, being Left Behind because they listened to Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Ever seen that guy? He looks like Satan. As a young Christian, he gave me the willies. The whole fear of being at the mercy of Galileo's Grand Inquisitors or torture advocates like Dick Cheney or communists like Joe Stalin. Big Government by whatever name or by whatever form of government. No wonder Christians vote on the basis of fear. Although they invariably make the worst possible choice in the voting booth.
13. The atheists don't believe in such things as a soul or a spirit. So it is very easy to see them as the machine that crushes the human spirit. And if there is no soul, how are we any different from those demonic vampires that Anne Rice writes about or the fey vampires in Twilight? That kind of immortality is hell as the vampires themselves would tell you. This is fantasy entertainment but we are offered no alternatives. An intolerant Christianity that hates blacks, women, Jews, Mormons, gays, Muslims (they want to kill everyone), liberals, Democrats, and a long list of others. Or other religions that may or may not offer one solace. Or the indecision of agnostics. Or the soulless dead embrace of the zombie atheists. Is there is no soul, how are we any different from rats or roaches or maggots?
14. Is there is no God, guess what will fill the void? Big Government. Is it any wonder that the places where atheism is accepted (either the statist kind or the Buddhist kind of atheism) happen to coincide with Russia and China. Theocracy is not a better alternative as people under the feudalism of Islam can attest. Decentralization, separation of powers, and separation of church and state make more sense in preserving the rights of individuals. And protecting the sanctity of human beings, their freedom and their privacy is ultimately what it all comes down to and Big Institutions are all about crushing souls, erasing individuality, and destroying the human spirit.
15. It is no accident that the Roberts Supreme Court has declared corporations persons. Chief Justice Roberts has never made a pro-consumer decision in his life. He is owned by the corporations and considers you to be a non-person. Once again, Christians are their own worst enemy in voting for conservative Republicans and placing blind faith in the Antichrist Bush who appointed this monster to dismantle the Bill of Rights and uphold the Patriot Act. The monsters like Bush, Cheney, Rove, and Roberts who destroy our democratic institutions will never be in a CIA prison or other torture chamber and so are blithely uncaring of the consequences of their callous actions since the fallout will never affect them. Better to be a ruler than the ruled -- to paraphrase Satan in Paradise Lost.
16. Nothing has changed since before you read this article. If you were a Christian before this article, then you are still one. If you were an atheist before reading this article, then you are likely still an atheist. Perhaps Christians are delusional. Perhaps it is delusional to want the universe to care about us. For the child or the old person to not face death alone.
17. Of course, I am an immortalist who happens to be Christian (there are other flavors of immortalists) and I come with a different set of desires and questions. I don't think we should face death at all. I think we should persevere on with scientific research until we can change the very laws of nature to make them more hospitable to people. And until recent research in physics, that would have been impossible.
18. The Christian concern with soul and spirit probably sounds quaint at best to atheists and delusional at worst but there is method to the "madness". A person with no sense of self can be trampled upon. Self-consciousness becomes consciousness becomes unconsciousness becomes oblivion. You become erasable data in Ray Kurzweil's insane scheme to digitize people like V'ger did in Star Trek The Motion Picture. If you want to be raped or brainwashed, then go ahead and knock yourself out. I choose to respect myself. Just as I choose not to cover my body with graffiti or inject drugs into my temple or to vote for a party that doesn't think climate change is real. Atheists ask good questions but atheists do not always come up with good answers to those questions. Communism should be an object lesson in how demonic it can be to jettison ideas of soul and spirit along with religion as "the opiate of the masses". Before I was a born-again Christian, I always thought Christians were intellectually lazy. Now that I am a born-again myself and been one for a long time, I still think Christians are intellectually lazy. With the exception of a few theologians and thinkers like Francis Schaeffer. Do I think atheists might be right? Sure. I concede that possibility but I do not care to prove an afterlife by getting myself killed. I get to define my own faith (or lack thereof) and I am not particularly interested if that bothers some people. It is my spiritual life and not someone else's.
19. Belief in a soul and a spirit (the two are different) has pragmatic uses as outlined above. An atheist may call me a coward for having Christianity as a "crutch" and another Christian may call me a coward for not wanting to die. If there is a gracious and kind way to say this: Screw'em. When I find a better ship to navigate life, I will change ships and not look back. Until then, steady as she goes. And you can bet that I have checked out every religion, non-religion and cult on the planet. And no kiddies, I don't believe in Santa Claus (a myth based on the probably real Saint Nicholas of Myra, a 4th Century bishop in what is now Turkey).
20. Why won't God heal amputees? I don't know. Maybe there is a documented case but we have not heard of it yet. But then that begs the question: If it happened once, why don't we have regeneration of limbs in people more often? Funny thing is, I am involved with a biotechnology company that wants to do exactly this. Maybe God does answer prayers but has been taking His time.

Why Won't God Heal Amputees?: Chapter 5 - Why won't God heal amputees?
Does God answer prayers? According to believers, the answer is certainly yes.For example, at any Christian bookstore you can find hundreds of books about the power of prayer. On the Internet you can find thousands of testimonials to the many ways that God wo

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Is cancer a metabolic rebellion against host aging?: In the quest for immortality, tumor cells try to save themselves by boosting mitochondrial metabolism.
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When it's time to dye, it's time to die.

sure, you can fool others but you can't fool yourself

Some possible solutions to really turn the color back without dye or coloring:

1. herb
2. gene therapy
3. deep hypnosis
4. scalp massage
5. ki (but you have to master the non-martial side of aikido)
6. qi (but you have to learn Chinese medicine)
7. similar concepts are Prana in Vedantic philosophy, mana in Hawaiian culture, and Lüng in Tibetan Buddhism
8. do headstands to restore circulation up there
9. frequently shampoo with a safe shampoo without harsh chemicals
10. avoid steroids and replacement hormones because the same thing that makes men manly makes them bald (but we're talking about grey not balding)
11. detox

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Life Insurance:

Is it a scam?

Yes. What better way to encourage your family to let you die than to financially motivate them?. If you die, they are the beneficiaries. Selfish? As Sarah Palin would say, you betcha. If your "loved ones" want you dead, then screw'em. You can always trade in your family for a better one by:

1. moving and relocation to another continent
2. never talking to them again
3. divorce
4. remarriage -- this time to a fellow immortalist who understands why you don't want to die (because you don't want to, that's why !!!!)
5. adoption of new children
6. making new friends -- this time fellow immortalists
7. gaining new neighbors -- this time fellow immortalists

People make these kinds of changes in their lives all the time. Am I right or am I right?

life insurance

actually insures that you WILL die

Editor's Note -- The only practical use for life insurance that I can see is with life extension societies and cryonics where they accept it as payment for services.

ka-ching

"They're dead. Now we can blow the money on a trip to Vegas."

My mother used to call that town Lost Wages. Is this how you want your life spent?

new group

Immortalists for Immortalism

Okay, so the name could use some work but it is very descriptive. We are immortalists who strive to make immortalism a viable lifestyle. Although listed as a closed Facebook group (to make members more comfortable in broaching various topics), any one can join. The only requirement to join is a simple and sincere interest in living forever.

Motto: "No one gets out of here dead." (a play on the title of Jim Morrison's biography)

If you need help joining, email TheToniRoman@facebook.com

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nephthys Jan 26, 2012 @ 10:59 am | delete

Great information,
tip- improve presentation?

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Toni_Roman Mar 28, 2012 @ 11:05 pm | delete

I'm trying.

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Inkhand Jan 22, 2012 @ 7:42 am | delete

An interesting lens, on the subject of immortality I rather not live forever because I would like to know what's next after this life, maybe there's nothing or maybe there's something, but it is that mystery that drives us to search for our individual meaning of life.

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Toni_Roman Jan 26, 2012 @ 6:03 pm | delete

Ahh, but there is also the mystery of being the first humans to live past 116 (I've personally known someone this old) and to still have no grey hair and no wrinkles but plenty of energy and good health. Don't make me cry at your funeral Inkhand. I prefer you alive and kicking. Call me selfish for liking people.

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Milan Scott May 27, 2011 @ 2:56 pm | delete

If only it were possible to live forever. The "secret" to a long life should include a good diet balanced with exercise, which is important especially for those with defective hip replacements that may be affected by a potential DePuy Pinnacle Recall who want to improve their overall health. Thanks for the information!

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Gio May 26, 2011 @ 3:10 pm | delete

Great lens about immortality. Thanks for sharing!

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pompom210 Nov 20, 2010 @ 10:34 pm | delete

Hey Toni,

Thanks, for a fascinating lens.

I too have had endless...discussions...in which I warn people that presuming mortality was self-defeating and certainly wasn't fair to children.

Oh, I'm glad you mention qi. In connection with that, there's an interesting book called THE MAGUS OF JAVA: Tachings of an Authentic Taoist Immortal by Kosta Danaos, as well as Mantak Chia (for example AWAKEN HEALING ENERGY THROUGH THE TAO).

Good work, Toni. Thanks for sharing! :D

Sunshine & Blessings,
Giovani

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Okinawa diet

Be the Youngest-Looking Centenarian

Why live long if you're going to be wrinkled like the cricket in Greek mythology?

"Be a Youthful Centenarian" links

101+ Plus Ways to Live Past 101

101+ Plus Ways to Live Past 101 Link

Guide to Cheating Death

Guide to Cheating Death links

People Cheating Death

close calls cheating death cars , fire and family

books on cheating death

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Guide to Eternal Youth

Some Thoughts on Eternal Youth

and the skin you're in

books on eternal youth

Guide to Growing Younger

Grow Younger, Live Longer 1: What We Consider Normal Reality

Galvanic Spa: Growing Younger Just Got Easier

books on growing younger

Guide to Life Extension

Guide to Living Forever

RFDC - November 18: Living Forever - Your Views...

books on living forever

Guide to Longevity

Guide to Reversing Aging

aging

Age Reversal

or reversal of aging or anti-aging

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age reversal continued

Age Reversal Resources

Age Reversal Resources

Anti-Aging Beauty Foods

Anti Aging Sensitive Skincare Routine

Tanaka Face Massage Part 1 (English)

The Truth About Facial Exercises - Anti Aging Secrets Exposed

Anti Aging Subliminal Self Hypnosis

Why The Beauty Industry Hates Men and Masculine Men

Anti Aging Skin Products for Men

Skin Care Tips For Men | Shaving and Anti Aging