{"id":18256,"date":"2015-10-08T17:10:41","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T00:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/transhumanism-immortality-bus-underway-across-america"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:21:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:21:43","slug":"transhumanism-immortality-bus-underway-across-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/transhumanism-immortality-bus-underway-across-america","title":{"rendered":"Transhumanism Immortality Bus Underway Across America"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New article on Immortality Bus trip promoting transhumanism with new videos:<\/p>\n

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It seemed a wild, impossible dream a year ago when I told my wife and young daughters I was going to drive a bus shaped like a coffin across America to raise life extension issues. A week ago, I just finished the second stage of the tour. Soon I\u2019ll begin the third stage from Arizona to Texas, and then across the Bible Belt to Washington DC, where I plan to post a Transhumanist Bill of Rights<\/a> to the US Capitol building.<\/p>\n

If the bus tour seems like a wacky idea\u2013especially for a presidential candidate <\/a>\u2013it\u2019s because it is. Of course, to transhumanists, a more wacky idea is how most of our nation largely accepts death as a way of life<\/a>. In the 21st Century, with the amazing science and technology this country has, I don\u2019t believe death needs to be left unconquered. If, as a nation, we would just apply our ingenuity and resources, we could probably conquer death in a decade\u2019s time with modern medicine. That\u2019s precisely the reason<\/a> why I\u2019m running for president and driving the coffin bus around the country; I want to tell people the important news and get them to support radical technology and longevity science.<\/p>\n

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\nConstruction of the bus in San Francisco \u2014 Photo by Zoltan Istvan<\/em><\/p>\n

Of course, along the way, I\u2019m also having a wild adventure. The tour officially began with an Indiegogo campaign which successfully raised $25,000 to buy the bus and start the journey. Once I received the money, I began scouring the internet to buy a bus. Eventually my dad helped me find one, and I purchased the 1978 Bluebird Wanderlodge coach for $10,000. It didn\u2019t run at first, but I spent some time and money on the engine and was able to get the bus rolling again. Later \u2014 to the wide-eyed stares of my neighbors \u2014 I drove the bus onto my suburban front yard in Mill Valley, California, where I transformed the coach into a giant coffin through a few weeks of noisy construction.<\/p>\n

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