Monday, December 10, 2007

I'm linking to Cato, you can get your jokes out now.

This month's major topic at The Cato Institute appears to be the dramatic lengthening of the human life span that has occurred and seems like it may continue to occur at an even greater rate.

There are four related essays; you won't have much trouble guessing which ones I am sympathetic to. My long fascination with and appreciation of the ways in which science conspires to stretch the limits of humanity is well known, as is my general optimism about the soul of humanity, but all of the articles are worth reading. I've listed them by how much worth reading I think each one is.

Old People Are People Too: Why It Is Our Duty to Fight Aging to the Death


Do We Need Death?


Nature Knew What It Was Doing


Ageless Mortals

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