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Dying to Live Forever

Dying to Live Forever

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Virginia Heffernan
Apr 21, 2022
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Journalist Peter Ward has spent years among the “immortalists,” studying the obscure things they do in hopes of living forever. On this week’s This is Critical, what happens when these methods go too far? And what do we lose when immortality becomes more important than living?

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