[extropy-chat] Essay on Physical Immortality

xllb at rogers.com xllb at rogers.com
Sun Jan 4 21:08:01 UTC 2004



Robert J. Bradbury wrote 
> It was only the use of the term "immortality" that I got stuck on.
> We really need to come up with a better word -- making one up
> if necessary -- to get to the point where the word means exactly
> what we want it to mean -- nothing more and nothing less.
> I thought of hyperlongevity and superlongevity but playing around
> with the dictionary they don't seem quite right.  I managed
> to come up with "itlongveos" - literally to go for long life
> or close there to.  But I suspect someone with a better grasp
> of latin or greek could come up with something better.
> What I would really like is a word for something involving
> an indefinitely long healthy life or life without limits.
> 
> Robert
> 


How about "sempiternal"?

xllb

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