Who wants to live forever? For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

Recently, the economist wrote that among those intrigued with the idea of living forever

are, quote, a motley crew of friend scientists, cultish groups, and tech billionaires.

With the articles a review of The Price of Immortality, a new book by journalist Peter Ward.

In it, he highlights a quirky quasi-religious group called the Church of Perpetual

Life, based out of Pompano Beach, Florida. Though its adherents mainly talk about food supplements

and cryonics, they espouse the hope that science will one day grant eternal life. And the quest

for immortality will always, to some degree, sound religious. Even for people with limitless

resources like billionaire tech moguls

like Jeff Bezos, the lines between science, science fiction, and an existential crisis can

be blurry. Part of the longing here is that no matter how many toys we have, there's

something more than our materialistic age offers. C.S. Lewis once said that if we find

ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy,

the best explanation is that we were made for another world.

Clesiastes says this is eternity put in our hearts by God.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with The Point.