The Immortalist

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by Alan Harrington

"Death is an imposition on the human race, and no longer acceptable," reads the first sentence of this extraordinary book. Within the last few years "[W]e have circled the moon, harnessed nuclear energy, artificially reproduced DNA, and now have the biochemical means to control birth; why should death itself, the Last Enemy, be considered sacred and beyond conquest?

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We must never forget that we are cosmic revolutionaries, not stooges conscripted to advance a natural order that kills everybody.

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We must never forget that we are cosmic revolutionaries, not stooges conscripted to advance a natural order that kills everybody.

— Alan Harrington, The Immortalist