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[Live Forever]

http://entertainment...icle1300783.ece

Mentions ImmInst, Bruce, and lots of other stuff.

[DJS]

I must say, this is one of the best articles articles I have ever seen written on the movement.

[Live Forever]

Actually I got to the end and it is extracted from the book of the same name:

http://www.imminst.o...=13&t=14903&hl=

Should we merge them or no?

[DJS]

Wow, very nice. That book is certainly going on my list of must buys. [thumb]

Should we merge them or no?

hhhm, not sure. I'd think leave them separate, right? It would probably maximize their coverage.

[Mind]

It is interesting that when BBC radio contacted Imminst about doing a round table discussion (myself, Aubrey, Mr. Appleyard, and someone else), the contact person talked as if Appleyard was the contrarian. The lady said he understood that practical/medical immortality was likely in the near future but thought it would not be a good thing for humans. Maybe he gets to that philosophy in other parts of the book.

[Shannon Vyff]

Too bad I was not at that conference -- people fighting for the recognition and the validity of this movement such as I, need to be heard as well. Avianna was going to get an award from Aubrey for raising $3003.00 going door to door at age 8, for the Mprize. She had a girl scout camp-out that weekend so we postponed her award acceptance to the Alcor conference. (I choose the parental thing) But that is the point! Parents need to be represented, and little immortalists!

I'm glad Brian Appleyard's book was written-I'll have to buy it-- last I heard he was not signed up for cryonics? Anyone know if he made the decision yet that it was worth the chance?

Well I hope that the ideas in my book for families, bring some other children into the movement when they grow up- understanding that since we have the possibility to end aging, we have the moral obligation.

I'm proud to have Nick Bostrom, Aubrey de Grey and Robert Ettinger all as endorsers of my book.

As long as I have energy, before aging/some disease, or accident gets me--I'll try to help with all the problems of the world that I can--and ending aging is certainly high on my priorities --as there is just so much to do!

[Karomesis]

Klein is a groomed, fit-looking man. His wife and ‘wonderful friend’, Susan Fonseca-Klein, co-founder and director of the institute, is round-faced and pretty. Together, they have the air not of a threateningly glamorous but of a consolingly ideal couple – young, healthy, good-natured, extravagantly friendly, ambitious, optimistic, glowing. One could imagine them in an advertisement for breakfast cereal.

[lol] [lol] .....breakfast cereal? I was thinking more along the lines of toothpaste [tung]


it did seem like a pretty good article though.

[John_Ventureville]

He forgot to mention that Susan is a razor-sharp lawyer but I admit women tend to be judged first on outward physical attributes. But hey, I bet Bruce is very very glad he is married to such a beautiful woman who he can honestly call his wonderful friend. And yet it's her intelligence, education and personality that complete the package as an ideal person and mate. I tend to think of Bruce and Susan as the "Max More and Natasha Vita-More" of the Gen X'ers. As for having them in a TV commercial, the product advertised would just have to be vitamins! hee

I'm going to have to buy that book.

John Grigg : )

[The Immortalist]

"Klein was thirty-one when I met him at Imminst’s conference at the Georgia Tech Conference Center, Atlanta, in November 2005. The conference turned out to be a snapshot of the immortalist front line. It is a movement that is part cult and part serious science".

Part cult? That's insulting!

[chris w]

"Klein was thirty-one when I met him at Imminst’s conference at the Georgia Tech Conference Center, Atlanta, in November 2005. The conference turned out to be a snapshot of the immortalist front line. It is a movement that is part cult and part serious science".

Part cult? That's insulting!

Haha, totally, that cought my eye too, but still it could have been "part cult and part quack science", so just look at it the bright way.

[The Immortalist]

"Klein was thirty-one when I met him at Imminst’s conference at the Georgia Tech Conference Center, Atlanta, in November 2005. The conference turned out to be a snapshot of the immortalist front line. It is a movement that is part cult and part serious science".

Part cult? That's insulting!

Haha, totally, that cought my eye too, but still it could have been "part cult and part quack science", so just look at it the bright way.

but still, we're not a cult at all. How could anybody make a comment like that? In what possible way's is Imminst like a cult?

[caliban]

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[chris w]

"Klein was thirty-one when I met him at Imminst’s conference at the Georgia Tech Conference Center, Atlanta, in November 2005. The conference turned out to be a snapshot of the immortalist front line. It is a movement that is part cult and part serious science".

Part cult? That's insulting!

Haha, totally, that cought my eye too, but still it could have been "part cult and part quack science", so just look at it the bright way.

but still, we're not a cult at all. How could anybody make a comment like that? In what possible way's is Imminst like a cult?

Well, I guess everything that deals with topic like immortality, will by definition be approached with this kind of attitude, it's hard for people to think otherwise, because they don't possess the "tools" to ponder this in a strictly materialistic way.

Hey, actually, if SENS succeeds, I won't mind making some bloody sacrificies to Aubrey in gratitude.