Imagination, Memory and Age

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BMI and Longevity

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Why we need a war on aging

Because it is a war situation. People keep on talking about 'wars' on health issues, or obesity, or cancer or poverty or... You get the picture.

This article tries to explain why aging should become the real target for our scientific wars.

Woody Allen and the Fire Inside

In a recent edition of the Australian ABC's 7.30 Report there was an interview with Woody Allen. It's mostly about film and stuff, of course, but since Allen is an Atheist/Absurdist with a long history of statements about his personal aversion to dying, I thought it would be worthwhile for Emortalists to have a look at it. It's all of 13 minutes long, which are 13 minutes well worth investing in listening to one of the world's most open-about-it Emortalists; yet no one seems to fully appreciate this, as Allen hides his proclivities under a carefully cultivated veneer of quips and wry NY Jewish humor.

I was struck particularly by his references to the terror associated with 'life', which is, of course--and this much is clear from the context and his other pronouncements--the terror of one who is, and has always been aware, of the presence and inevitability of personal extinction; or, as the Bog Seger lyrics to his song Fire Inside would have it, of the fact that "...no matter what you dream or feel or say, it ends in dust and disarray".

It occurs to me yet again that those with the awareness of this truth and who have none of the consolation provided by those religions who do provide it (which include all monotheisms), cannot help but be profoundly affected by the 'terror' Allen speaks about, and which some of us share; especially those who aren't very good at the art of 'denial'.

Emortalist Practice — for those too stingy to pay for the book

You'll find the book serialized here, though you'll have to live with the odd comment from others on the forum.

I'll give it a couple of weeks before deciding that my initial impression of the reaction ("Why don't we just get back to our usual business and ignore Till?") is accurate.

R.I.P.

That's what I'm talking about...

Emortalist Practice

OK, so the title changed, but the book—a rather small monograph of just over 30k words—is now available from lulu.com.