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Success Story with Scott D. Clary

Lessons - How Technology Will Make Death Optional Within Decades | Zoltan Istvan - Futurist & Presidential Candidate

Success Story with Scott D. Clary

Success Story Media

Business, How To, Careers, Self-improvement, Education, Entrepreneurship

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In this "Lessons" episode, Zoltan Istvan, futurist and former presidential candidate, explores how emerging technologies could make death optional within decades. He unpacks the core of transhumanism, from synthetic organs to mind uploading, and explains why aging should be treated as a disease. Zoltan also addresses the cultural and religious pushback to radical life extension, and advocates for morphological freedom—the right to modify one’s body through technology. Sharing his unconventional journey, he reveals how personal risk-taking shaped his mission to redefine what it means to be human.


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0:00.0

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0:39.1

views and visitors now spend 27% more time on their site. If you are ready for impossible growth

0:45.9

like this, visit HubSpot.com. In this lessons episode, discover the bold world of transhumanism

0:51.9

and the quest to radically extend human life through science and technology.

0:55.8

Learn how synthetic organs, gene editing, and mind uploading challenge the limits of mortality,

1:00.2

explore why religious and societal beliefs spark controversy around life extension

1:04.4

and understand how redefining aging as a disease could unlock major government investment in longevity research.

1:21.5

For people that have never heard of transhumanism ever, what does that actually mean?

1:26.2

Is it disease prevention? Is it like neuralink? Is it, what is it? Sure. Well, transhumanism is just a social movement and it has a funny, it's a funny name.

1:30.5

It's just an umbrella term for a lot of different things like cryonics, immortality,

1:36.1

life extension, singularity thinking, whatever it is.

1:39.2

It's just a term that covers a huge movement of scientists and normal people that are pushing to use science

1:46.3

and technology to radically extend the human beings life.

1:50.1

Now, how would we do that?

1:51.0

Well, most people die from organ failure.

1:52.9

So, for example, one of the transhumus's greatest cause is working on synthetic organs

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