Poll- Do YOU want to live forever?
A few years ago, a Reader’s Digest poll asked people all over the world to answer one simple question: Do YOU want to live forever? As a science fiction author […]
Category Archives: Immortality
The New Cell on the Block
Until recently, the scientific community relied on two main types of stem cells for research, embryonic and adult stem cells. A new discovery could put them both out of business. […]
Killing Death- Suicide
This month, I’m exploring how and if we could end death for good. The image you see is from the Manner of Death box on Alaska’s death certificate. I see […]
Killing Death- Accidents
Could we ever stamp out all causes of death, creating perfect immortality for everyone? I work for the state government of Alaska, and I often see death certificates when people […]
The Road to Immortality
This post is based on my current read, Long for this World, a book by science writer Jonathan Wiener. Life expectancy is the average number of years a person born […]
How Long Should We Live? Part III- Continued
I wrote the last two posts about the biological and ecological consequences of living longer, but also of doing away with death altogether. Now we come to something that intrigues […]
How long should we live? Part III- Continued
Yesterday, I broke my post into three sections. I continue today with ecological effects of the increasing human life span. Ecological- Lynx are predators that hunt snowshoe hares almost exclusively. […]
The Immortal In Your Garage Part II
Last week I explored immortality when I compared Alaska’s giant mining machines, the dredges, to the human body. Two of Fairbanks’ ten dredges ran 24 hours each day and 254 […]
The Immortal In Your Garage Part I
Several weekends ago, I got a shock on my way into the Laundromat. A newspaper headline proclaimed that Fairbanks, Alaska had lost an icon. My favorite place to explore, Gold Dredge […]
Battle of the Sexes-who lives longer?
Studies have found there are four or five women centenarians for every one man over 100. It must be in those two X chromosomes, right? That’s what I thought until […]
The Phoenix Series 