The Immortalist

by Alan Harrington

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890871353
• ISBN13: 9780890871355
• Release Date: February 1977
• Publisher: Celestial Arts
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A very thought-provoking book

"The time has come to kill Death." This book reviews the possibility of making people immortal and examines the philosophical and other consequences of doing so. It is a wonderful concept, and turns the book into a model giant essay, providing an excuse for examining the key role that death plays in human civilization. They don't write 'em like this any more. Someone should start writing The New Immortalist. It's about time.

Classic work from 1969 calling for an immortality program

"Death is an imposition on the human race, and no longer acceptable." That's the first sentence, and it gives a good feel for the book. Harrington spends too much time on psycho-babble, analysing our fear of both death and immortality. Some is interesting and some not. But he displays clear thinking about what it will take to end the certainty of old age and death as an unavoidable fate for every human being -- barring accident or disease, of course. It's an intriguing idea passionately presented. The Discus/Avon paperback from 1970 has an eye-catching painting on the cover (no credit, alas) of an old man standing knee-deep in the ocean, his skin peeling away to reveal -- a young man