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Price of Immortality and the race to live forever - Peter Ward

Mysterious Matters: Archive - Dark Matter AM 2026

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The Importance of Living Past Our Natural Expiration Date

If the ability to live past our natural expiration date was something that was available in the 1700s, we would still have people in today's age who were strong proponents of slavery. And giving immortality to certain people might not be the best plan for humanity. "I think if you if you live your life and then go by the basic, the very, very basic rule of I want to leave the world a little bit better than when I entered it," he says.

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