Summary
Most of us are resigned to the fact that we won't escape death in the end. But there are people who have dedicated their entire lives to conquering death. This relatively new movement of 'transhumanists' believes that science is close to finding a cure for aging and that immortality may be just around the corner. Chloe Hadjimatheou asks whether it's really possible to live forever and whether it's actually desirable.
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| 0:00.0 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:04.6 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:08.4 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable |
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| 0:36.0 | This is the BBC. |
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| 0:43.3 | the kind comments from CH stroke O D and Claire Diamond. |
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| 0:50.8 | preferably a nice one, wherever you get your audio downloads of joy. |
| 0:55.8 | In this podcast, Modern Medicine is achieving remarkable successes in conquering a wide range |
| 1:00.9 | of ailments, and that raises a question, what if death is just another illness to be cured. |
| 1:07.0 | That's an increasingly common idea. |
| 1:10.0 | Chloe Hadjimeteu meets the people who think we can and should live forever. |
| 1:15.0 | Let's start with the story of Josh Schisler and Kim Swarzi, |
| 1:19.0 | the woman he was in love with and still is. |
| 1:22.1 | Kim was hilarious. |
| 1:24.0 | I had kind of a crass sense of humor honestly, |
| 1:27.0 | and she was really intelligent. |
| 1:29.0 | I guess that was what attracted me to her. |
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