Phil Elverum Quotes

Transhumanists are not fond of death. We would stop it if we could. To this end, we support research that holds out hope of a future in which humanity has defeated death.

I want to live until they find a cure for dying.

Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people know about immortality device. That way, your loved ones won't die.

Some people believe that you should die, and some people think dying is a nuisance. I'm one of the latter. So I think we should get rid of death.

I actually think it will be possible one day to be immortal.

I don't think it is about stalling or curing: it's about reversing. Curing gives you the impression of immortality. Stalling gives you the impression that you'll be 85 forever, which is not great.

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying.

I show people how to build their own immortality device.

As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think.

As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.

What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

One of my favorite books was 'The Book of Immortality' by Adam Leith Gollner, which talks about cheating death and life extension and frames with a story that David Copperfield finds a fountain of youth on an island he bought.

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

Human life is limited but I would like to live forever.

I told my doctor I wonna stop aging, he gave me a gun!

The only secret people keep is immortality.

I'd support life extension by whatever means, from cryonic suspension to cyborgism to coding ourselves into our computers or whatever. There is nothing noble or beautiful or dignified about dying. Like poverty, it is ugly, nasty, brutal and primitive.

Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact

Come on, you Do you want to live forever?

I'm going to live forever, or die trying !

The point is, as death gets closer - what's so wrong with wanting someone you love to live forever?

We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.