{"id":11413,"date":"2014-05-29T07:56:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T14:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11413"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:14:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:14:28","slug":"suspended-animation-goes-primetime-say-goodbye-to-death-as-we-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/suspended-animation-goes-primetime-say-goodbye-to-death-as-we-know-it","title":{"rendered":"Suspended Animation Goes Primetime: Say Goodbye To Death As We Know It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Posts by Steven Kotler\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/skotler\/\" rel=\"author\">Steven Kotler<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/7175\/fdc.forbes\/article-new_3__container__\">In <i>The Princess Bride<\/i>, the always sagacious <a style=\"color: #555555;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D9tAKLTktY0\" target=\"_blank\">Miracle Max<\/a>\u2014aka Billy Crystal\u2014points out \u201cthere\u2019s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead.\u201d And he wasn\u2019t wrong.<\/div>\n<p style=\";\">Death has always been something of a moving target. Take, for example, the first edition of the <a style=\"color: #555555;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deathreference.com\/Da-Em\/Definitions-of-Death.html#b\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Encyclopedia Britannica<\/i><\/a>, published in 1768, that defined the term as \u201cthe separation of soul and body; in which sense it stands opposed to life, which consists in the union thereof.<\/p>\n<p style=\";\">But how can you tell when said separation occurs? Well, that\u2019s a slightly more complicated procedure and one we still haven\u2019t quite cracked. Thus, moving forward, and trying for an\u2014um\u2014 more practical definition, we began to define the end of life by a series of cessations.<\/p>\n<p style=\";\"><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/05\/27\/suspended-animation-goes-primetime-say-goodbye-to-death-as-we-know-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Kotler \u2014 Singularity Hub In The Princess Bride, the always sagacious Miracle Max\u2014aka Billy Crystal\u2014points out \u201cthere\u2019s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead.\u201d And he wasn\u2019t wrong. Death has always been something of a moving target. Take, for example, the first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1768, that defined [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47066,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413\/revisions\/47066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}