The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead

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The Immortality Institute: Excerpt from “Nanomedicine” by Robert A. Freitas Jr., J.D., from The Scientific Conquest of Death: Essays on Infinite Lifespans, edited by members of The Immortality Institute (Buenos Aires: LibrosEnRed, 2004). Reprinted by permission of The Immortality Institute.

London Review of Books: Excerpt from “Holy Disorders” by Hilary Mantel (London Review of Books, March 4, 2004, vol. 26, no. 5, www.lrb.co.uk). Reprinted by permission of London Review of Books.

New Directions Publishing Corp. and David Higham Associates: Excerpt from “The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower” from The Poems of Dylan Thomas, copyright © 1939 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. and David Higham Associates.

The Wylie Agency: Excerpt from “The School” from Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme, copyright © 1976 by Donald Barthelme. Reprinted by permission of The Wylie Agency.