{"id":80479,"date":"2018-07-09T02:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T09:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/memo-to-those-seeking-to-live-for-ever-eternal-life-would-be-deathly-dull"},"modified":"2018-07-09T02:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T09:02:22","slug":"memo-to-those-seeking-to-live-for-ever-eternal-life-would-be-deathly-dull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/memo-to-those-seeking-to-live-for-ever-eternal-life-would-be-deathly-dull","title":{"rendered":"Memo to those seeking to live for ever: eternal life would be deathly dull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/memo-to-those-seeking-to-live-for-ever-eternal-life-would-be-deathly-dull.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take this seriously and you can see how the idea of living for ever is incoherent. If your body could be kept going for a thousand years, in what sense would the you that exists now still be around then? It would be more like a descendant than it would a continuation of you. I sometimes find it hard to identify with my teenage self, and that was less than 40 years ago. If I change, I eventually become someone else. If I don\u2019t, life becomes stagnant and loses its direction.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It\u2019s great that more of us are living to 100, but the transhumanist dream of immortality would betray what it means to be human says philosopher Julian Baggini.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/jul\/08\/live-for-ever-eternal-life-deathly-dull-immortality\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/jul\/08\/live-f...mmortality<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take this seriously and you can see how the idea of living for ever is incoherent. If your body could be kept going for a thousand years, in what sense would the you that exists now still be around then? It would be more like a descendant than it would a continuation of you. I [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80479","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\/80479","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}