Most longevity conferences today are technology shocases. What is missing is a serious collective discussion around a larger question: beyond science, what must change to make death optional for everyone? In 2026, it is time to create such a conference.

Format

Philosophers only. No marketing or promotional talks.
This is a safe space to say what you genuinely think.
Each participant will share their current work or research, followed by a short discussion. Please also explain why you believe this is the right moment for this work.
Each person will have between 5 and 30 minutes, depending on the number of participants.
We will begin with immortality and the possibility of ending aging, then follow the discussion wherever it leads.
At the end, we will decide together how to continue developing this philosophical circle.
The meeting will be recorded. Please use a clean, pleasant background or a virtual background.

Why this event should happen?

Martin Lipovšek

Philosophy addresses fundamental questions of life, meaning, identity, ethics, and justice. Today, rapid scientific and technological progress makes the radical extension of healthy human life increasingly plausible. This raises urgent philosophical and ethical questions. A conference on the philosophy of longevity can help philosophers connect, identify shared positions, guide future research, influence society to better prepare for an ageless future and articulate the urgency of saving millions from aging.

Andrei Panferov

We will not arrive at a civilisation that refuses to accept death by default. Before death becomes optional for everyone, billions more people will die. That is why life extension is not only a scientific challenge. It requires us to rethink what it means to be human, how justice is defined, how societies govern risk, identity, and power, and what gives life meaning.

Patrick Linden

My interest in longevity and in the philosophy of death stems from my view that it is a terrible thing to exist and then not exist. To object to death itself is to run counter to a long tradition of philosophy that tries to show that death is, for some reason, not fearsome. In my book The Case against Death, I have argued that common philosophical arguments in favor of death are unpersuasive: if death is the end, then death is dreadful. We should want to be able to live for as long as we want to, and we should hope that w

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