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SALON: IMMORTAL—SHOULD WE LIVE FOREVER?

Wed, Mar 06

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THH 309K

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SALON: IMMORTAL—SHOULD WE LIVE FOREVER?
SALON: IMMORTAL—SHOULD WE LIVE FOREVER?

Time & Location

Mar 06, 2019, 6:00 PM

THH 309K, Taper Hall, W 34th St, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA

About the event

“Life is short”, as many people say. Although some people live longer than others, the average life span of a human is 78.7 years. We all know that death is coming for us, whether that be tomorrow, or in another 70 years. Death is a defining factor of human life—one of few conditions experienced by all—but yet we seem to do everything in our power to delay it, or stop it altogether.

In the past, medical research and innovation strived towards fighting disease to ensure that humans could live out their expected life span, but more recently technological and medical companies are funneling billions of dollars into a new type of research: human immortality. As the viability of these advances increase and life expectancy shifts, so too will our long-held beliefs about life, death, and the time in between. Living forever as we are—in physical bodies—would radically change all industries,…

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