{"id":925,"date":"2019-07-08T11:04:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T11:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/?p=925"},"modified":"2019-07-08T11:04:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T11:04:15","slug":"exploring-immortality-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/?p=925","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Immortality [Audio]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_header\" class=\"clearfix\">\n<div id=\"content_summary\" class=\"active\">\n<div id=\"summary_content\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To mark the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/courses\/qualifications\/r45\" >new BA (Hons) qualification in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics (R45)<\/a>, Suzanne Newcombe and Carolyn Price discuss how researchers in Religious Studies and Philosophy investigate immortality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"content_article\" class=\"clearfix\">\n<div id=\"article_main\" class=\"main-article-wrapper clearfix\" aria-labelledby=\"aria-article-main-label\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-body-text field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>Research into physical immortality is big business. Just try\u00a0searching Google for the\u00a0CEO of Apple Computers and biotech firm Genentech founded Calico (est. 2013). It&#8217;s a\u00a0company backed by a billion dollars of investment which aims to \u2018devise interventions that slow aging and counteract age\u2011related diseases.\u2019\u00a0However, the potential of immortality raises significant ethical concerns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Find out more &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.edu\/openlearn\/history-the-arts\/philosophy\/exploring-immortality#\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.open.edu');\">listen to their discussion<\/a> (which includes a full transcription). And\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/courses\/qualifications\/r45\" >find out more about the Religion, Philosophy and Ethics degree here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the new BA (Hons) qualification in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics (R45), Suzanne Newcombe and Carolyn Price discuss how researchers in Religious Studies and Philosophy investigate immortality. Research into physical immortality is big business. Just try\u00a0searching Google for the\u00a0CEO of Apple Computers and biotech firm Genentech founded Calico (est. 2013). It&#8217;s a\u00a0company backed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[330,331,332,219,315,86],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ideas","tag-audio","tag-carolyn-price","tag-immortality","tag-podcast","tag-r45","tag-suzanne-newcombe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions\/927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}