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The Prospect of Immortality in Bilingual American English and Traditional Chinese ??"???? ????-?-??""??-?????

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THE PROSPECT OF IMMORTALITY IN BILINGUAL AMERICAN ENGLISH AND TRADITIONAL CHINESE - by Robert C.W. Ettinger with a new (2010) foreword by the author (2010) -- Sinclair T. Wang, Translator , -- is available in hardback (ISBN 978-1-934297-00-1) and paperback (ISBN 978-1-934297-01-8) editions. HERE IS MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOK (ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH IN 1964): In the 1960s Ettinger founded the cryonics (cryonic hibernation) movement and authored The Prospect of Immortality. Ettinger sees "discontinuity in history, with mortality and humanity on one side -- on the other immortality and transhumanity." Cryonic hibernation (experimental long-term suspended animation) of humans may provide a "door into summer" unlike any season previously known. Ettinger argues for his belief in "the possibility of limitless life for our generation." 1960 () , 一 。 ", 一 -一 。" () 一"", 一。 "" 。 KEYWORDS: biostasis; cryonics; death; future medicine; immortality; life extension; personal identity; suspended animation; technological singularity; transhumanism. HERE IS A TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE BILINGUAL (IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH AND/OR YOUR CHINESE?) BOOK OF 552 PAGES:

((CONTENTS IN ENGLISH:))
---Preface by the Translator ● viii

---FOREWORD 2010 BY ROBERT ETTINGER ● xxii

---Preface by Jean Rostand ● 2

---Preface by Gerald J. Gruman ● 12

---Chapter I. Frozen Death, Frozen Sleep, and Some Consequences ● 28

---Chapter II. The Effects of Freezing and Cooling ● 52

---Chapter III. Repair and Rejuvenation ● 140

---Chapter IV. Today's Choices ● 184

---Chapter V. Freezers and Religion ● 220

---Chapter VI. Freezers and the Law ● 264

---Chapter VII. The Economics of Immortality ● 302

---Chapter VIII. The Problem of Identity ● 364

---Chapter IX. The Uses of Immortality ● 398

---Chapter X. Manners, Modes, and Morals of
Tomorrow ● 428

---Chapter XI. The Freezer-Centered Society ● 468

---References ● 497

((CONTENTS IN CHINESE:))

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---ROBERT ETTINGER 2010 ● xxiii

---Jean Rostand ● 3

---Gerald J. Gruman ● 13
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