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Meet the Vitalists: the hardcore longevity enthusiasts who believe death is “wrong” | MIT Technology Review

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They argue we need a revolution—and more and more influential scientists, funders, and politicians are taking them seriously.

“Who here believes involuntary death is a good thing?” Nathan Cheng has been delivering similar versions of this speech over the last couple of years, so I knew what was coming. He was about to try to convince the 80 or so people in the audience that death is bad. And that defeating it should be humanity’s number one priority—quite literally, that it should come above all else in the social and political hierarchy. “If you believe that life is good and there's inherent moral value to life,” he told them, “it stands to reason that the ultimate logical conclusion here is that we should try…

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