The immortalization commission: science and the strange quest to cheat death
European history, Politics and government, Paranormal, Death and bereavement
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
Summary
For most of human history, religion provided a clear explanation of life and death, but in the late 19th and early 20th centuries new ideas - from psychiatry to evolution to Communism - seemed to suggest that our fate was… now in our own hands. Gray investigates the belief that the science-backed Communism of the new USSR could reshape the planet, and the belief among a group of Edwardian intellectuals that there was a non-religious form of life after death. c2011.