The Price of Immortality
The Race to Live Forever

I saw a Forbes review bemoaning how mean this book is to billionaires, so of course I had to read it - many of the books in this genre end up more bootlicking and snake oil than anything else, so it's a refreshing change of pace. First off, know this isn't about philosophy - Ward is first and foremo......more

Most books I’ve seen about “life extension” and immortality are written by advocates of various ways of living much longer, or even forever. These include Ray Kurzweil, the noted tech guru, and Dave Asprey, the inventor of “bulletproof coffee”, among many others. But this book is different. Ward is......more

I thoroughly enjoyed this book and found it informative and interesting. Brilliantly researched, I found out things I had never imagined. It's not just about people who want to freeze themselves in the hope they will be thawed out and 'cured' in the future or those providing such services, but delve......more

"People prefer to die. It is changing now, but it is changing slowly" I've never encountered such an accurate title for a book. This is not about the price of immortality from a philosophical perspective as I was expecting, although the topic is addressed in exciting ways in the final few chapters. I......more

Fun book, ignoring the childish political rant presented as fact in the last chapter.......more