Episode 38: Death
The Charles C. W. Cooke Podcast
The Immortality of Life
In the chapter that I explore this immortality thing in the book, people soon need a license to get pregnant. You'd have a huge overpopulation problem on your hands. So people would stop having children, essentially. They would have to. It doesn't seem to be a very happy vision. After all, when you talk about society, society is just a collection of all those individual experiences. There's no big difference between talking about what immortality would be like for an individual and what immortality would been like on a societal level. One of my deepest fears is running out of ideas for novels. But if I lived forever, would I really keep coming up with ideas for books? Might I instead
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