“We wanted to make fun of that fear-based culture we’ve been plunged into. And Halloweens the perfect metaphor for fear.”

Physical immortalists today, those who think science will find a way to keep us young forever, would call Hanaya Yanagihara scenario the Tithonus error.

The military-industrial complex lubricates the mass-agriculture system with fossil fuels.

No one wants to live forever if it means becoming increasingly decrepit.

This is a comment on fear. Today it’s like ‘They’re going to bomb the New York subway and there’s the avian flu and 50 million of us are going to die.’

Like our ancestors, we act in ways that will bemuse future societies.

We’ve also always hoped that there might be a way to avoid dying.

If manufacturers are so sure there is nothing wrong with genetically modified foods, pesticides and cloned meats, they should have no problems labeling them as such.

They think they’ll find another way. I’m not so sure. It seems like her book views immortality as a dangerous desire.

Not everyone wants to live forever, but every culture has always desired immortality in one way or another.

Humans have always believed in the possibility of another life, of a second act.

Tons of heavy metals and other hazardous, even radioactive, waste is sprayed on American agricultural soil.

The term “cultural-universal” is a complicated one, but I’ve heard it come up on numerous occasions while researching immortality.

After all, cancer will kill one in every two men and one in every three women now alive, reports Samuel Epstein, chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition.

Conduct, which involves a decision of the ultimate fate of the agent cannot be based on illusions.

Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time.

I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.

The Christian life from start to finish is based upon this principle of utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus.

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

We may end up with a world based more on equity than debt, or more on market debt instruments than bank intermediation; but how and why we get there is a mystery.

We are living in a world where everything is based on security.