{"id":239280,"date":"2011-05-15T15:41:14","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T15:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eugenesis.com\/the-immortalization-commission-science-and-the-strange-quest-to-cheat-death-john-gray\/"},"modified":"2011-05-15T15:41:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T15:41:14","slug":"the-immortalization-commission-science-and-the-strange-quest-to-cheat-death-john-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/the-immortalization-commission-science-and-the-strange-quest-to-cheat-death-john-gray.php","title":{"rendered":"&#034;The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death,&#034; John Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-EpTPJoLpDgQ\/TccRs-0pq0I\/AAAAAAAACQQ\/toYCnpXTgcc\/s1600\/article-1355643-00AC023A00000259-937_468x286.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/eugenesis.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/dc2fc_article-1355643-00AC023A00000259-937_468x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p><blockquote><\/blockquote><blockquote><p>...&ldquo;The Immortalization Commission&rdquo; is a fascinating piece of intellectual history, exploring the intersection of science, religion, mysticism and a kind of philosophical curiosity that made the early 20th century so much more intellectually dynamic, so much more open-minded and eclectic, so much more magical than either philosophy or science is today. If contemporary god-builders &mdash; seeking to stave off death with blue-green algae, Bikram yoga and cryogenics &mdash; are more crass and materialistic than those in Gray&rsquo;s story, ultimately they fail to appreciate the same point: that life seems to get much of its meaning from the fact that it ends. --The Scientific Revolt Against Death, review of John Gray's The Immortalization Commission, The New York Times Book Review<\/p><\/blockquote><p>You can read the entire review of John Gray's fascinating <span>The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death <\/span>in today's New York Times by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/08\/books\/review\/book-review-the-immortalization-commission-by-john-gray.html\">here<\/a>. You can find out more about the book--and purchase a copy--by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/morbanat-20\/detail\/0374175063\">here<\/a>.<\/p><p>Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/02\/20\/nyregion\/thecity\/20cone.html?fta=y\">Aaron,<\/a> for sending this review my way.<\/p><p>Image: Getty Images, captions reads:The search for eternal life: Even Charles Darwin hedged his bets and attended a seance; found at  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/books\/article-1355643\/Is-anybody-THE-IMMORTALIZATION-COMMISSION-BY-JOHN-GRAY.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/eugenesis.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/495f1_6582997874621015158-5957323979823386458?l=morbidanatomy.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>...&ldquo;The Immortalization Commission&rdquo; is a fascinating piece of intellectual history, exploring the intersection of science, religion, mysticism and a kind of philosophical curiosity that made the early 20th century so much more intellectually dynamic, so much more open-minded and eclectic, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/anatomy\/the-immortalization-commission-science-and-the-strange-quest-to-cheat-death-john-gray.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[577281],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anatomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}