{"id":85849,"date":"2018-12-15T01:22:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T09:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/meet-the-people-trying-to-live-long-enough-to-live-forever"},"modified":"2018-12-15T01:22:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T09:22:18","slug":"meet-the-people-trying-to-live-long-enough-to-live-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/meet-the-people-trying-to-live-long-enough-to-live-forever","title":{"rendered":"Meet the People Trying to Live Long Enough to Live Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-the-people-trying-to-live-long-enough-to-live-forever.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the most serious devotees, immortality-seeking is a full-time commitment to keeping abreast of the latest innovations\u2014they speak of these \u201cmodalities\u201d with the same reverence a Christian would of a blessing. A $250 billion industry of antiaging products and services is there for the collection\u2014and many of their offerings are for sale at RAADfest.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Ivan Apers, center, surrounded by participants in the RAAD Challenge, a yearlong health and fitness regimen culminating at RAADfest. Members showed off their results with a choreographed workout set to music.<\/p>\n<p><b>This story appears in <\/b><b> VICE Magazine\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/topic\/the-burnout-and-escapism-issue\" target=\"_blank\">Burnout and Escapism Issue.<\/a><\/b> <b> Click<\/b><b> <a href=\"https:\/\/checkout.subscriptiongenius.com\/vice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/b><b> to subscribe.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre we ready to open the doors?\u201d an event producer in a skintight catsuit asked into a headset.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/mbybpb\/the-death-of-death-v25n4\">https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/mbybpb\/the-death-of-death-v25n4<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the most serious devotees, immortality-seeking is a full-time commitment to keeping abreast of the latest innovations\u2014they speak of these \u201cmodalities\u201d with the same reverence a Christian would of a blessing. A $250 billion industry of antiaging products and services is there for the collection\u2014and many of their offerings are for sale at RAADfest. Ivan [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85849","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=85849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}