If the science of 'radical life extension' is realized and the technology becomes widely available, it would arguably have a more radical impact on humanity than any other development in history. This book is the first concerted effort to explore implications of radical life extension from the perspective of the world's major religious traditions.

Introduction: Living For 1,000 Years-Or Longer; Co-Editors D.F.Maher & C.Mercer Radical Life Extension: Technological Aspects; A.de Grey The Evidence-based Pursuit of Radical Life Extension; P.Estep Be Careful What You Wish For? Radical Life Extension Coram Deo: A Reformed Protestant Perspective; N.M.de S.Cameron & A.DeBaets Extreme Longevity Research: A Progressive Protestant Perspective; R.Cole-Turner Becoming Yet More Like God: A Jewish Perspective on Radical Life Extension; Rabbi E.N.Dorff Karma, Austerity, and Time-Cycles: Jainism and Radical Life Extension; S.Fohr Told You So: Extreme Longevity and Daoist Realization; L.Kohn Churning the Ocean of Milk: Imaging the Hindu Tantric Response to Radical Life Technologies; Jeffrey Lidke in collaboration with J.W.Dirnberger Two Wings of a Bird: Radical Life Extension from a Buddhist Perspective; D.F.Maher ...A Thousand Years, Less Fifty: Toward a Quranic View of Extreme Longevity; A.Y.Musa Radical Life Extension: Implications forRoman Catholicism; T.L.Nichols 'May You Live Long': Religious Implications of Extreme Longevity in Hinduism; A.Sharma Afterword: Theological, Spiritual, and Ethical Reflections on Radical Life Extension; T.Peters