#TheDeathOfDeath
What They Say
Michio Kaku
Theoretical physicist and author of The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
Enter any drugstore or bookstore, and we are confronted with a mountain of nonsense concerning the aging process. Society seems obsessed with aging.
That is why The Death of Death is such a refreshing delight, able to cut through the hype and reveal a balanced, authoritative, and lucid discussion of this controversial topic. It summarizes the astonishing breakthroughs made recently in revealing how science may one day conquer the aging process.
Ray Kurzweil
Co-author of Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever and co-founder of Singularity University
We are entering a Fantastic Voyage into life extension, crossing different bridges that will take us to indefinite life spans. The Death of Death explains clearly how we might soon reach longevity escape velocity and live long enough to live forever.
George Church,
Professor at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and founding member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
José and David have captured the spirit of what may be the greatest revolution in history. Not some abstract far distant promise but an exponential growth of rigorous discovery and technology in our midst but understood by only a few. This clear prose will help you join the conversation and choose a path. You should definitely read this international bestseller.
Aubrey de Grey,
Aubrey de Grey, founder of LEV (Longevity Escape Velocity) Foundation and co-author ofEnding Aging
The Death of Death is a truly revolutionary book. This is a visionary book that confronts us with the terrible reality of aging, and its authors are friends and connoisseurs of the subject. I believe that the authoritative and exhaustive description of this crusade that José and David make in this excellent book will accelerate this process. Forward!
Terry Grossman
Co-author of Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever and longevity expert
This wonderful book presents a compelling case for truly unprecedented life extension. The Death of Death shows how the time has come at last for Death to get a taste of its own medicine!
Jim Mellon
Co-author of Rejuvenescence and multimillionaire investor in longevity research
It is a fact that the science of longevity is now catching up with the aspiration that most people have to live longer lives in good health. Very soon this will become a reality and this is brilliantly explained in the new book The Death of Death: a must read for anyone interested in the evolving science of Juvenescence
Ben Goertzel
Chair of HumanityPlus and CEO of SingularityNET
The Death of Death is a critical book for anyone who is alive and would prefer to remain that way. It gives a clear, rich and entertaining overview of the near-term prospects for using technology to eliminate disease and death.
I expect The Death of Death to make major headway in furthering the world’s understanding of both HOW technology is going to eliminate death, and WHY this is a tremendously good thing.
Elizabeth Parrish
Founder of BioViva and “patient zero” in telomerase treatments
As medicine becomes an information technology, genetic and cellular therapies allow us to manipulate cells with greater precision. Thanks to the exponential acceleration of these capacities, aging and, thereby, death will be eliminated. The Death of Death explains the details of this campaign, and how humanity will soon live long enough to live forever
João P de Magalhães
Chair of Molecular Biology at the University of
Birmingham
The Death of Death offers a wonderful vision of how the breathtaking scientific advances in aging research and other fields can abolish human death by scientific means and why this is the right path for humankind.
Juan Enriquez
Author of As the Future Catches You and Evolving Ourselves
The Death of Death is a very interesting book, because it is likely that the following generations live, on average, much more than they expect. Technology advances by leaps and bounds (unless you are waiting for an immediate cure), and therefore it is important to discuss what to do with much more, and more, life. Read The Death of Death and think…
Martine Rothblatt
Founder of United Therapeutics and author of
Virtually Human
The authors are two of the main lights of the world futuristic movement.
The Death of Death considers the technologies and ethical issues that will make this book a reference to human longevity for educators and politicians.
Álvaro Vargas Llosa
International policy expert and co-author of the
Guide of the Perfect Latin American Idiot
Natasha Vita-More, PhD
Author of Persistence of Long-Term Memory and executive director of HumanityPlus
This book is written with clarity and wisdom in telling the most important story of all time: The Death of Death. The prevention of death must become a global priority. Above all other existential risks, death is the most immediate threat to our species. This realization is so powerful that one day in the future the death of a single person will set off alarms throughout the entire world.
Paul A. Spiegel
CLO Longevity Olan USA
The End of the Line for Death!
Excellent writing and thoughtful information and insights into a significant scientific frontier that could affect the lives of every person on Earth!
Zoltan Istvan
Former US presidential candidate and author of The Transhumanist Wager
We have seen incredible advances in our understanding of aging in recent years. What will we see in the coming years? Will we be able to cure aging? And if so, when? If you want to know, The Death of Death is your book.
Diego Arria
Former president of the United Nations Security Council
Reading this book is the best way to start a new day full of life and opportunities. If rejuvenation occurs in the short term, we must begin now to consider this extension of life that the authors offer us in The Death of Death
Anders Sandberg
Professor of the Future of Humanity Institute,
University of Oxford
The Death of Death deals with one of the top moral priorities today: to slow and stop aging and death. As the case for the scientific feasibility of this becomes clearer, the importance of explaining and understanding the implications grows ever larger. This book fills that important role.
Bill Faloon
Cco-founder of the Life Extension Foundation and author of Pharmocracy
I enthusiastically recommend The Death of Death to our followers and also to skeptics who do not realize how close science is to eradicating biological aging forever.
Alex Zhavoronkov
Founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine and author of The Ageless Generation
Aging is the main cause of almost all diseases and death, so accelerating
progress in the biotechnology of longevity is the most altruistic cause anyone can pursue. We live in the most exciting moment in the history of humanity, since we can substantially increase the productive longevity in our lifetimes.
The Death of Death presents the many moral and economic arguments to eliminate death as we know it and analyzes recent trends in science that can bring us closer to this goal. Read this book and join the revolution against aging: the true emperor of all diseases.
Jason Silva
Futurist and presenter of Mind Games with National
The Death of Death is a visionary book. Something very important if we are going to win the war against death, and every battle requires a meaning, a “why,” and this book serves as inspiration.
Raymond McCauley
Scientist, entrepreneur and founding faculty at Singularity University
We are headed for a future where death shall have no dominion. Almost no one in the world understands this, but the authors get it, deeply, and in their excellent book The Death of Death they offer to take us by the hand, and show us the way forward, along the many paths technological and personal, to a promise of longer and healthier life.
Jerome Glenn
CEO of The Millennium Project
The Death of Death brings together important research and insights to a future where we live much longer that we think is possible today. Can we really become immortal? If so, when?
David Orban
Investor and founder of the Network Society Ventures
José and David bring passion informed by their deep knowledge in a field of human flourishing that is mostly unexplored today, but that is going to be one of features fundamentally shaping civilization tomorrow. If you are planning to live in the future, and you will, then you must read this book!
Kenneth Scott
Managing investor for Human Longevity and Rejuvenation Syndicate at VivaSparkle.com
The Death of Death is at once a description of our evolving understanding of the possibilities of immortality, and also a manifesto for their achievement. The authors, José Cordeiro and David Wood, are pioneering visionaries, but also ardent activists, for the steps we need to follow, as societies, to achieve the great rewards that await with extended and potentially immortal life.
Sonia Arrison
Associate co-founder of Singularity University and author of 100 Plus
The Death of Death is a call to action. If new longevity technologies can be developed faster, many lives will be saved. It is an important and humanitarian message that everyone should listen to.
Sergio Ruiz
Sergio Ruiz, co-founder of Turn Biotechnologies and Methuselah Fund
Humananity is headed towards an awakening of historic proportions as two worlds collide: exponential medical innovations and the archaic current healthcare establishment. The Death of Death is a crucial literary work that prepares readers for this exciting point of convergence. Understanding that a pivotal change in lifespans and healthspans is “ad portas” allows us to shape a future we want to be a part of.
Robert C. Wolcott
co-founder and chair of TWIN Globa
For the first time in human history, the fountain of youth might be within reach. José and David’s optimistically – and perhaps prophetically – titled book, The Death of Death, is by far the finest discussion of this contemporary quest, what it could mean for each of us – and for humanity. A must-read for anyone who might one day die.
Sergey Young
Sergey Young, founder of Longevity Vision Fund and author of Growing Young
Sigmund Freud once said: “the goal of all life is death.” I say: “the goal of all death is life.” And in The Death of Death, José and David prepare us for this transition.
Fiona Miller
Managing partner at quadraScope Venture Fund
The Death of Death is a bold, fascinating and engrossing book presenting the concept of longevity escape velocity that once achieved will allow us to stay young and healthy indefinitely. I couldn’t put it down. Scientific discoveries of the last two decades brought a clear understanding of human aging and now the best minds in the world are working to cure aging. I have full confidence that our scientists will be successful, since I myself have participated in the amazing leaps of the computer and networking evolution and now the same thing is happening in longevity biotech. Proactive rejuvenation medicine will be the biggest market ever, and now is the best time to invest.
Bertalan Meskó
Founder of The Medical Futurist
In the age of digital health technologies, artificial intelligence and the rise of longevity research, it’s particularly important to discuss issues around death with style and enough compassion. The Death of Death bravely examines the topic nobody wants to talk about and analyzes a future in which death itself
might become obsolete.
Dmitry Kaminskiy
General partner of Deep Knowledge Group and author of Longevity Industry
I have known José and David for almost a decade, and can think only of a few people who have dedicated so much work, passion, and energy towards the techno-ethical humanitarian mission of Longevity Industrialization than them. José and David, through their years of international community building, breaking barriers and building bridges for the global longevity community, have made an incalculable impact towards bringing this all-important topic to the attention of new eyes and ears, helping to wake humanity up and recognize the most important inflexion point of its entire history (and future).
Evelyne Bischof
Professor at Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences and visiting professor at Tel Aviv University School of Medicine
The field of longevity medicine is utterly multidisciplinary, and collaborative effort with various arenas, including biotech, AI, computational science, biology and geroscience are determining the speed of clinical translation towards longevity diagnostics and interventions. Longevity medicine tackles risks of developing age-related comorbidities, and while it’s not a priority to extend the lifespan, but the healthspan, it is important to know the future trends presented in The Death of Death.
Marc P. Bernegger
Founding partner of Maximon
José and David are real disruptors and pioneers in the field of life-extension and longevity. Their provocative and visionary book gives a good overview about the massive changes which are ahead of us affecting all aspects of our lives.
Brenda Ramokopelwa
Brenda Ramokopelwa, CEO of Transdisciplinary Agora for Future Discussions and director at AfroLongevity
This book X-rays the possibilities of using advanced science and technology to access quality lifespan and overcome death caused by aging. As a result, ethical application and putting humanity at the center of it all should be key. The Death of Death is a book worth reading.
Andrea B. Maier
Professor in Medicine and Healthy Aging and codirector Centre for Healthy Longevity, National University of Singapore
Our body is the greatest asset, but it is often poorly maintained. Implementation of geroscience diagnostics and interventions is revolutionizing health(care) and will optimize healthspan. How long this span of health should last is rigorously discussed in The Death of Death. Life or health extension?
Brian Kennedy
Director of Centre for Healthy Longevity and professor of Biochemistry and Physiology, National University of Singapore
Aging research has become mainstream and, while most of the current focus is understandably on extending healthy longevity and offsetting the emerging demographic, global crisis of age-related chronic disease, the future impact of longevity research is an equally important and fascinating issue. No one is a bigger advocate of the future of this field than José and his coauthor David. Here, they thoughtfully explore whether age-associated mortality is truly inevitable. For the first time in history, this is a legitimate question with which scientific endeavour must grapple.
Jamie Metzl
Founder of OneShared.World and author of Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity
Death may not yet be dead, but we humans are fast-developing the tools to put up, quite literally, the fight of our lives. The Death of Death thoughtfully explores a future of human mortality that could be radically different from our past. It should be required reading for anyone interested in the promising new science of human life extension.
Adriane Berg
Host of Generation Bold Podcasts, fellow of The New York Times Age Boom and co-founder of National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys
The Death of Death gives us a vision of a world where death needs not be a given. No one should dismiss the importance of this book or the logic with which co-authors José and David construct it. They are two of the world’s leading futurists on aging. Open your mind and heart and leap into a future that may already be at the tipping point of human change and destiny. What would extreme longevity or The Death of Death mean to government policies and culture? Would you live your life differently? As the book grapples with these issues, the authors provide answers not just for immortalists but for all of us.
Phil Newman
Editor-in-chief of Longevity.Technology
There are so many questions about our relationship with death, many of them unspoken; there is a dissonance in our group think – from individuals, to politicians, to scientists. The Death of Death not only deals with these questions head-on, it sets-out the technical and moral roadmap for humankind to embrace longevity and for individuals to plan to live as long as they wish. Longevity is the next megatrend and this book makes a huge contribution to its foundation.
Tina Woods
Tina Woods, founder & CEO of Collider Health, Healthy Longevity Champion, National Innovation Centre for Aging
The Death of Death is a masterful exploration of the exponential developments in science and technology enabling us to unravel the intricacies of the aging process and imagine the tools to delay and maybe even stop death. We need brilliant minds and provocateurs like José and David to challenge pervasive thinking that constrains progress to live longer healthier. The next frontier in longevity is how we can harness and share collective intelligence across all of society to create a world where all people can flourish – since hope, passion and curiosity and all the unique magical ingredients of the human spirit that drive us are critical to give people the longing to live, and not just survive.
James R. Strole
James R. Strole, director for the Coalition for Radical Life Extension and RAAD (Revolution Against Aging and Death) Fest
I am deeply grateful to both José and David writing this powerful book. It not only covers the rapidly expanding science of curing aging and death, but reminds us that we as human beings have historically always sought out immortality, because it’s innate in our bodies to ultimately conquer death.
Nicklas Brendborg
Nicklas Brendborg, associate of Futures Institute AG and author of Jellyfish Age Backwards
The fight against aging should be something uniting us all. The Death of Death delivers an important, thorough and enjoyable deep dive into how we could win this fight and what will come next.
Richard Siow
Director of Aging Research, King’s College London
The fear of death has fuelled the quest by humans to extend their lives life since time immemorial. Although spiritual lives may last for eternity, recent advances in science and technology brings mankind a step closer towards realistically extending their mortal life through increasing health-span. This provides a foundation for many of the concepts persuasively covered in The Death of Death to inspire the next generation of scientists, entrepreneurs, educators, and policymakers to collectively endeavour to realise some of them over the next few decades.
Naveen Jain
Founder of Viome and Moon Express, vice chair of Singularity University, author of Moonshots
The Death of Death is a revolutionary book that considers the new possibilities of “moonshot” thinking applied to longevity and rejuvenation technologies. Indeed, immortality is impossible until it becomes possible, this is disruptive thinking!
Peter Sramek
Managing general partner of LongevityTech.Fund
We see an acceleration of scientific discoveries and clinical trials, clearly showing that we can slow down and reverse the aging process. The major problem now is the general perception of this effort as something “unnatural” or “impossible”. The Death of Death is an excellent elaboration and argumentation to support our vision and general awareness. It will not leave anyone in doubt after reading.
John Asher
CEO and co-founder of Asher Longevity Institute
The Death of Death sets a new standard for living well for as long as we want. This book presents a logical roadmap for eternal life. Thrilling! Inspiring!! Logical!! Backed by very credible data from the top experts in the field.