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Tallis in Wonderland

Technoimmortalization

Raymond Tallis tells us how (not) to live forever.

For those of us who have no religious faith, death means death, even more surely than Brexit means disaster. We godless ones can no longer entertain the hope that, after we have left this world of transient things, we shall (if we have been good) awaken to an eternal life of unending bliss. The final tragedy, it appears to the atheist, is inescapable and universal.

Or it was until recently. Promise of salvation has come from an unexpected source – from the very science that has had such an important role in discrediting religion and disenchanting the world.

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