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January 2016

January 09, 2016

Immortality the Ineffable Underdog

Everyone you love and everyone you know and everything you touch will someday be gone....

September 2015

September 08, 2015

Transhumanism as a Possibility, Not a Promise

I have a soft spot for the transhumanists, and as I’ve said, if they were...

June 2015

June 01, 2015

Frozen Worms = Immortality Around the Corner

Cryogenics has long been the province of cranks, charlatans, and the easily-duped (I’m not a...

April 2015

April 28, 2015

Memére

When I first visited Maine with my then-bride-to-be, Memére filled me in on a lot...

March 2015

March 13, 2015

To Persist, to Ponder

Neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi died on March 9 of lung cancer. He was, as I am, 37...

February 2015

February 19, 2015

Oliver and I are Going to Die

Oliver Sacks thinks differently from me. He will be dead soon. He’s handling it much...

January 2015

January 28, 2015

Why Not-Being in the Future Completely Sucks

Adam Frank at NPR's 13.7 blog on why we shouldn't be hung up about death,...

September 2014

September 29, 2014

Over My Dead Body

A college girlfriend of mine used to pride herself on being kind of pro-death. She...

August 2014

August 11, 2014

Robin Williams and the False Promise of Success

I have no idea why he did it. I have no special insight into whatever...

November 2013

November 13, 2013

In Which My Boy Fills Me with Despair for My Own Mortality

I recently wrote about how I had been compelled to introduce the concept of death...

September 2013

September 05, 2013

You’re Going to Lose Your Life, So Go Ahead and Lose Your Self

Stephen Cave talks to Susie Nielson about ways of coping with the reality one's inevitable...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

The White Butterfly is Broken: Kids and Death

Virginia Hughes looks at the way children process the concept of death, and the prevailing...

October 2011

October 06, 2011

Grieving an Ethos: Thoughts on the Loss of Steve Jobs

Most of the people I work with are, naturally, having very strong feelings about the...