Killing Death- Pending Investigation
Note: This blog is part of an ongoing series examining the manners of death on the Alaska death certificate and exploring what it might take to abolish them. Even if […]
Tag Archives: Immortality
Killing Death- Homicide
A recent homicide shook Alaskans and the rest of the country. On May first, two state troopers, dispatched from Fairbanks, were shot and killed in the tiny village of Tanana. […]
Poll Results- Who wants to live forever?
The results are in! Last week I asked you and the rest of the internet, “Would YOU like to live forever?” It was a short time frame, but I managed […]
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 […]
Killing Death- Natural Causes
Earlier in this series I mentioned I work in an Alaskan state government office and I take in copies of Death Certificates. By far, the decedents are over fifty and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 Phoenix Series 