{"id":15957,"date":"2015-08-06T14:47:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T21:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/why-a-presidential-candidate-is-driving-a-giant-coffin-called-the-immortality-bus-across-america"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:25:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:25:43","slug":"why-a-presidential-candidate-is-driving-a-giant-coffin-called-the-immortality-bus-across-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/why-a-presidential-candidate-is-driving-a-giant-coffin-called-the-immortality-bus-across-america","title":{"rendered":"Why a Presidential Candidate Is Driving a Giant Coffin Called the Immortality Bus Across America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-a-presidential-candidate-is-driving-a-giant-coffin-called-the-immortality-bus-across-america.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My new Huff Post Op-Ed on the Immortality Bus and transhumanism: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/zoltan-istvan\/why-a-presidential-candidate-is-driving-a-giant-coffin-called-the-immortality-bus-_b_7928826.html\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/zoltan-istvan\/why-a-presidenti\u202628826.html<\/a> And if you haven\u2019t donated something to the Indiegogo campaign for the bus, please consider doing so, as there\u2019s only four days left and we\u2019re currently short $9000. Anyone from any country can donate. Please also share the campaign. Thanks! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/immortality-bus-with-presidential-candidate-zoltan\/x\/6837406#\/story\">https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/immortality-bus-with-pres\u2026406#\/story<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>On my tour called the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.immortalitybus.com\/\" target=\"_hplink\">Immortality Bus<\/a>,\u201d I\u2019m hoping to share with others that we should support a society and culture that is strongly pro-science and pro-longevity. My team and I plan to have embedded journalists aboard the bus, documenting our trip and enlivening the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, many people in America and around the world \u2014 especially those who believe in afterlives \u2014 are neutral or even oppose stopping biological death and aging with science. They feel it challenges what is natural in the human species. Transhumanists call these people \u201cdeathists,\u201d those who believe and accept that death is a desirable fate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/zoltan-istvan\/why-a-presidential-candidate-is-driving-a-giant-coffin-called-the-immortality-bus-_b_7928826.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new Huff Post Op-Ed on the Immortality Bus and transhumanism: http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/zoltan-istvan\/why-a-presidenti\u202628826.html And if you haven\u2019t donated something to the Indiegogo campaign for the bus, please consider doing so, as there\u2019s only four days left and we\u2019re currently short $9000. Anyone from any country can donate. Please also share the campaign. Thanks! https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/immortality-bus-with-pres\u2026406#\/story On my [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15957","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\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69758,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15957\/revisions\/69758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}