After the First Death, There Is No Other

Over at the Cato Institute’s website , Aubrey de Grey, Diana Schaub, Ronald Bailey, and Daniel Callahan are having an interesting discussion under the title “Do We Need Death? The Consequences of Radical Life Extension.” Diana—a professor of political science at Loyola College of Maryland and member of the President’s Council of Bioethics—is one of the most serious political theorists around, and in one of her posts she mentions
the role of death in political theory , a topic we’ve discussed in these parts before. The whole exchange with de Grey, Schaub, Bailey, and Callahan is very much worth reading.

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