Arch-anarchism and immortality
One of the great goals of transhumanism is to achieve immortality through science, and indeed some futurists like Raymond Kurzweil and Ian Person think we are close, citing advances like nanotechnology and mind scanning by artificial intelligence as being close to granting us this by the middle of this century. As an arch-anarchist I support overcoming any obstacle to the will of the individual and that includes death(1). But even with the predictions of Mr. Kurzweil(2) and Mr. person(3) we would not be totally free from death, even with the emergence of technology to transfer our minds to synthetic bodies in the event of death as person discusses we would still have to deal with existential risk scenarios. for example an asteroid or comet impact event, a supervolcanic eruption, a natural pandemic, a lethal gamma-ray burst, a geomagnetic storm from a coronal mass ejection destroying electronic equipment, long-term natural climate change, hostile extraterrestrial life or the Sun tu...
