Life extension
- Life extension as a major focus - Life extension is a strategic issue for winning people over - Life extension is seen as part of transhumanism, s…
2022.05.26
- Life extension as a major focus
- Life extension is a strategic issue for winning people over
- Life extension is seen as part of transhumanism, so winning people to life extension is winning them to transhumanism
- Life extension is relatively easy to persuade people about
- Life extension raises important ethical questions—which we can address, thus demonstrating the value of our larger perspective
- Life extension is a powerful ethical cause
- Life extension is convergent with disease eradication. Significant efforts toward defeating age-related disease will be significant efforts toward life extension.
- Life extension has a profound humanitarian impact—heart disease, cancer, and dementia are leading worldwide (not just first world) killers. They impact everybody. They matter to everybody. And they matter in very concrete ways.
- Life extension has a profound economic impact—increasing health-span stands to dramatically reduce overall medical expenses, while addressing the economics challenges of an aging population.
- Life extension is highly consistent with Christian perspectives
- Long (healthy, productive, relational) life is seen as a blessing in scripture
- Genesis depicts humanity as living to extreme ages (including Methuselah, Enoch, and Noah, who are seen in a positive light)
- Isaiah 65:20 envisions a future of radical longevity, paired with world peace, and eradication of infant mortality
- Long life allows for the accumulation of wisdom in the community, something praised in scripture
- Life extension is a cause people can invest in today
- By contributing money
- By individuals choosing where to focus their own research
- Life extension is a strategic issue for winning people over