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title: "To Count Our Days: The Scientific and Ethical Dimensions of Radical Life Extension"
description: "The prospect of dying has always fascinated, haunted and, ultimately, defined human beings. From the beginnings of civilization, people have contemplated their own mortality – and considered the possibility of immortality."
date: "2013-08-06"
authors:
  - name: "Pew Research Center"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2013/08/06/to-count-our-days-the-scientific-and-ethical-dimensions-of-radical-life-extension-2/"
categories:
  - "Biotech"
  - "Death & Dying"
  - "Health Policy"
  - "Human Enhancement"
  - "Medicine & Health"
  - "Older Adults & Aging"
  - "Religion & Bioethics"
  - "Religion & Science"
  - "Religion & Science"
---

# To Count Our Days: The Scientific and Ethical Dimensions of Radical Life Extension