{"id":81691,"date":"2018-08-13T11:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T18:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/is-life-extension-altruistic"},"modified":"2018-08-13T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T18:22:21","slug":"is-life-extension-altruistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/is-life-extension-altruistic","title":{"rendered":"Is Life Extension Altruistic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-life-extension-altruistic.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently, we\u2019ve published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/life-extension-is-not-selfish\/\">article<\/a> explaining why life extension is not a selfish endeavor. As a matter of fact, life extension is a rather altruistic endeavor, though this depends on your interpretation of the definition. Let\u2019s dig deeper.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is altruism?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the Oxford English Dictionary, altruism is disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others. Thus, one is altruistic when his or her actions are done for the benefit of others, without placing any importance on his or her own benefit.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/is-life-extension-altruistic\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/is-life-extension-altruistic\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, we\u2019ve published an article explaining why life extension is not a selfish endeavor. As a matter of fact, life extension is a rather altruistic endeavor, though this depends on your interpretation of the definition. Let\u2019s dig deeper. What is altruism? According to the Oxford English Dictionary, altruism is disinterested and selfless concern for the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81691","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}