Do We Have to Die at All?

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Why do we have to die at all? Why didn't evolution design a body with systems that would just keep going on forever? Yes, that's a good question. One of there's plenty of theories about a. Ah, one of the ries is that oviusly, once you reach a certain age, you're no longer useful a i. So your body is program to go through stages where you have children. And then once you've had children, you no longer want to be competing with those children for resources. E, which makes sense in a very sort of clinical way. But there's still a great deal of mystery about it, right?

Shermer and Ward discuss: religious immortality • Church of Perpetual Life in Florida • what it means to live forever • why lives have doubled in length the past century • Stein’s Law: things that can’t go on forever won’t • Why do we age and die? • how to live to 100, 1000, 10,000 years • escape velocity to reach immortality • Aubrey de Grey’s program • tech billionaires programs • transhumanists/extropians • diet, exercise, supplements, stem cells, telomeres, and other aging hacks • Ray Kurzweil • cryonics • nanotechnology • brain preservation • mind uploading and digital immortality • Ernest Becker and Terror Management Theory

Peter Ward is a British business and technology reporter whose reporting has taken him across the globe. Reporting from Dubai, he covered the energy sector in the Middle East before earning a degree in business journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His writing has appeared in Wired, The Atlantic, The Economist, GQ, BBC Science Focus, and Newsweek.