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A small sector of Silicon Valley is trying to live forever — literally — and Catholics are actively engaging with this growing ideology.
In the Roman Missal, one of the Prefaces prayed at Masses during Ordinary Time thanks God for having “fashioned for us a remedy out of mortality itself.”
Human beings attempting to fashion their own remedy out of mortality is, of course, nothing new. For centuries, searching for a way to live forever, humans have tried alchemy, mummification, witchcraft … and, increasingly, especially in modern times, science.
Nestled within the more expansive field of transhumanism — the quest to improve and enhance human beings through reason and technology — a new and high-tech effort is underway to entirely thwart the human aging process.
A poster child for this crusade is Bryan Johnson, a multimillionaire entrepreneur who has gained an almost cultlike following as the founder of a movement succinctly dubbed “Don’t Die.”
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In the Roman Missal, one of the Prefaces prayed at Masses during Ordinary Time thanks God for having “fashioned for us a remedy out of mortality itself.”
Human beings attempting to fashion their own remedy out of mortality is, of course, nothing new. For centuries, searching for a way to live forever, humans have tried alchemy, mummification, witchcraft … and, increasingly, especially in modern times, science.
Nestled within the more expansive field of transhumanism — the quest to improve and enhance human beings through reason and technology — a new and high-tech effort is underway to entirely thwart the human aging process.
A poster child for this crusade is Bryan Johnson, a multimillionaire entrepreneur who has gained an almost cultlike following as the founder of a movement succinctly dubbed “Don’t Die.”
Continued below.
Defying Death: Catholics Caution Against the Transhumanist Quest for Immortality
A small sector of Silicon Valley is trying to live forever — literally — and Catholics are actively engaging with this growing ideology.
