Who Wants to Live Forever?

Who wants to live forever?

For millennia, human civilization has been fascinated with overcoming death. Immortality, eternal youth or at least the prospect of reaching biblical age have had a strong lure for religion, art and popular beliefs. Life after death, which is, in essence, eternal life, is the one central element of nearly all religions since Ancient Egypt. If we believe the Old Testament, some of the patriarchs...

Who Wants to Live Forever? Living, Dying and Grieving in Our Digital Society

Almost ubiquitous hardware technology, such as smart phones, ensures that social networking sites are part of users’ everyday norms and routines. However, some are now using these new communication technologies to deal with the issues of death, dying and grief. With the hope of being able to create digital memories to leave behind for future generations, the opportunity to “live on” and become ...

Who wants to be normal?

Is the average elderly Norwegian at high risk of cardiovascular disease after 60 years of age? Will most of these men and women need health care or even drug treatment in order to lower serum lipids and/or blood pressure? Well, according to the present guidelines of the European Heart Association, this actually seems to be the case. Hartz et al. show that in Tromsø, Norway, the vast majority of...

Who wants to be healthy?

Games and simulalions can play an integral part of health education by creating a productive and enjoy­ able learning environment. Television and board games requiring various degrees of knowledge and skill can be adapted to present key health concepts, I to allow students to interact with and personalize health information, and to assess personal risk. 2 Within a game format, strategies includ...

How to live forever: lessons of history.