Don't Die: Somebody Just Made Up a New Religion, I Guess

What Bryan Johnson's religion of not dying tells us about ourselves

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Contemporary people are weird about death. Even as we gain more tools to extend life, we’re also developing new ways to end life. We’re afraid and uncomfortable with death, in part, because we have lost our story of rebirth, of resurrection (this is what T.S. Eliot was on about in his great poem The Waste Land). As …