“Who wants to live forever?” asked Freddie Mercury in 1986. Well, as it turns out, most of us don’t. Ever since the dawn of humankind, death has been accepted as the only inexorable fact of existence, a final act which gives our life meaning.
Neuroscientist Dr Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston, a research fellow at Melbourne’s Monash University, does not agree. Death is not inevitable and it should be resisted, he argues. Instead, life should be prolonged for as long as possible, and technology will eventually enable us to live for centuries.
