Immortality Institute
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The Institute
The Immortality Institute is a nonprofit 501(3)(c) organization with the mission "to conquer the blight of involuntary death." The organization hosts an online forum, publishes books, creates films, and sponsors conferences in order to advance life extension research. It is supported by donations and the membership fees it charges, monthly, annually, or through a lifetime membership. It encompasses gathering all information together that could contribute towards avoiding death, including all of the below.
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See also
- Immortality Institute
- Alcor Life Extension Foundation
- American Cryonics Society
- Cryonics
- Robert Ettinger
- Ben Best
- Charles Platt
- Aging
- Caloric restriction
- Centenarian
- Cryonics
- Immortality
- Infinity
- Life expectancy
- Life extension (anti-aging redirects here)
- Longevity
- Senescence (aging)
- Singularitarianism
- Supercentenarian
- Transhumanism
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Further reading
- Immortality Institute. 2004. The Scientific Conquest of Death: Essays on Infinite Lifespans. Libros En Red. ISBN 9875611352
- Bova, Ben. 2000. Immortality: How Science Is Extending Your Life Span-and Changing the World. New York: Avon. ISBN 0380793180
- Perry, R. Michael. 2000. Forever For All: Moral philosophy, Cryonics, and the Scientific Prospects for Immortality. New York: Universal Publishers. ISBN 1581127243
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External links
- Immortality Institute for Infinite Lifespans
- Immortality Institute Wiki
- Immortality Institute Film, on Google Videos, free to watch
- The Alcor Life Extension Foundation
- The Cryonics Institute
- Why Do Transhumanists Want to Live Longer?
- Life Extension Foundation
- Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS)
- Mechanisms of Aging
- Why Life Extension or Why Live at All?