Gallery: A Brief History of Immortality

All you mortal humans seeking immortality...
I would love to be immortal at least to the point until I wanted to die, but it would become a drag after a few centuries.

This is the most super brief timeline ever. I like it, but there is so much more. Im not sure about all the old ones, theres also Gilgamesh, Methuselah, most of religion, the holy grail stuff, the wandering jew, various people and myths, etc. Most importantly, what Im talking about is the more recent stuff. There is evolutionary theory, the work of Geron and their 1990s "immortality" breakthrough headlines, bio engineering like SENS and the work of various start ups that has been in the news and raised millions from people like the founder of paypal, there is Longecity which is an organization dedicated to working on indefinite life extension across the board. The Methuselah Foundation has a very important monumental sort of project going via what is known as the M Prize, there is a guy working to help the cause lobby Washington, there are countless world conferences, there are the key books "Ending Aging" "The Scientific Conquest of Death" "The Immortal Cell" and others.

we all have true immortality in re-incarnation. Regardless of belief we are all recycled, and of course limited by our belief system at death. Many happy returns!

There are fun to read about, thanks PoPSCi.

Not true dkelia. Much like the utter failure of the ideas of Ray Kurzweil, your unique essence that makes you who you are is uniquely part of your physical brain. Destruction of your brain is the destruction of the unique person. Kurzwell thinks you could upload yourself to a machine and be immortal, but that's impossible. You just end up creating a fake copy of yourself, but you still would indeed die and will not experience any of it. It's all utterly pointless.

Another organization worthy of mention is Robert Ettinger's Cryonics Institute.

Breakthroughs in molecular biology are occurring so rapidly that it is conceivable that we will be able to revive and restore cryonically stored bodies to health and youth within decades.