Suppose we were to conduct a poll of everybody on the earth to ask them whether they would wish to live forever. I wonder what the results would be.<\/p>\n
Perhaps a more interesting question is how the results would break down by demographics. Who would want immortality, and who wouldn’t?<\/p>\n
For example, does the desire for immortality increase or decrease with age? Is it dependent upon household income?<\/p>\n
As far as I know, we all have that one thing in common — one day we will all face the Grim Reaper. But I imagine that among the roughly 8.3 billion people currently on this planet there are many and varied opinions about that event — or the possibility of avoiding it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Suppose we were to conduct a poll of everybody on the earth to ask them whether they would wish to live forever. I wonder what the results would be. Perhaps a more interesting question is how the results would break down by demographics. Who would want immortality, and who wouldn’t? For example, does the desire … Continue reading “Immortality, the survey”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28925,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28924\/revisions\/28925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}