No Clear Consensus on Talking to Kids About Immortality

May 3, 2011

Asked in a recently concluded poll whether parents should tell their children that “some in their generation may live forever,” IEET readers could not settle on a preferred response.

Although the top answer chosen was that “it’s a lie” since “nothing, not even the elements, will last forever,” the #2 answer, following close behind, was that “we can tell them they might be able to live for hundreds of years.”

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