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1896: George A. Gordon — Immortality and the New Theodicy; 1897: William James — Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine; 1898: Benjamin Ide Wheeler — Dionysos and Immortality; 1899: Josiah Royce — The Conception of Immortality; 1900: John Fiske — Life Everlasting; 1904: William Osler — Science and Immortality
Biological immortality (sometimes referred to as bio-indefinite mortality) is a state in which the rate of mortality from senescence (or aging) is stable or decreasing, thus decoupling it from chronological age. Various unicellular and multicellular species, including some vertebrates, achieve this state either throughout their existence or ...
Unethical human experimentation is human experimentation that violates the principles of medical ethics.Such practices have included denying patients the right to informed consent, using pseudoscientific frameworks such as race science, and torturing people under the guise of research.
Physical immortality is a state of life that allows a person to avoid death and maintain conscious thought. It can mean the unending existence of a person from a physical source other than organic life, such as a computer.
Inedia (Latin for 'fasting') or breatharianism (/ b r ɛ ˈ θ ɛər i ə n ɪ z əm / breth-AIR-ee-ən-iz-əm) is the claimed ability for a person to live without consuming food, and in some cases water.
Though the science journalist Michael Pollan called the book "groundbreaking," Brian Muraresku's The Immortality Key is largely a rehash of others' work shaped into a Da Vinci Code–style thriller.
Chinese woodblock illustration of a waidan alchemical refining furnace, 1856 Waike tushuo 外科圖説 (Illustrated Manual of External Medicine). Waidan, translated as 'external alchemy' or 'external elixir', is the early branch of Chinese alchemy that focuses upon compounding elixirs of immortality by heating minerals, metals, and other natural substances in a luted crucible.
In religious Daoism and traditional Chinese medicine, yangsheng refers to a range of self-cultivation practices designed to promote health and longevity. These techniques include calisthenics, self-massage, breathing exercises, meditation, internal and external Daoist alchemy, sexual practices, and dietary regimens.