{"id":90693,"date":"2019-05-14T07:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T14:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/death-could-soon-become-a-curable-disease"},"modified":"2019-05-14T07:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T14:22:25","slug":"death-could-soon-become-a-curable-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/death-could-soon-become-a-curable-disease","title":{"rendered":"Death could soon become a curable disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/death-could-soon-become-a-curable-disease2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m excited to share my new #transhumanism article out at Metro, on of UK\u2019s largest sites. It\u2019s part of their #FutureofEverything series. Check out the artwork too:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Whatever science transhumanists want to use to become a better species, overcoming biological death is the movement\u2019s primary goal.<\/p>\n<p>Most deaths in the world are caused by ageing and disease. Approximately <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecology.com\/birth-death-rates\/\">150,000<\/a> people die every day on planet Earth, causing devastating loss to loved ones and communities.<\/p>\n<p>I think the first step in getting this figure to decrease is for governments around the world to declare ageing a disease.<\/p>\n<p>If society were to see ageing like it sees cancer or diabetes, then I believe more would be done to fight it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2019\/05\/14\/death-could-soon-become-a-curable-disease-9191393\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m excited to share my new #transhumanism article out at Metro, on of UK\u2019s largest sites. It\u2019s part of their #FutureofEverything series. Check out the artwork too: Whatever science transhumanists want to use to become a better species, overcoming biological death is the movement\u2019s primary goal. Most deaths in the world are caused by ageing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90693","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=90693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}