Should You Choose to Live Forever? A Debate

"Should You Choose to Live Forever? is one of the newest entries in Routledge's excellent 'Little Debates about Big Questions' series, and it's the best one I've read. . . . it's so accessible and well-structured (each chapter has its own breakdown of contents and summary at the end). The book serves both as an ideal introduction to the literature for a layperson and as the most up-to-date version of Fischer's and Cave's positions. I highly recommend it for anyone working on or interested in philosophical issues related to immortality. As Cave and Fischer show, this includes (or should include) just about everyone." - Travis Timmerman, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

"Scientists may eventually be able to extend some people's lives for many hundreds or even thousands of years. This book is a friendly argument between two eminent philosophers about whether this would be good or bad for those people. Even if none of us now will be fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to be around to experience radical life extension, we can still benefit enormously from this debate's illuminating exchanges, conducted with wit and verve, about death, the meaning and value of life, the nature of well-being, the metaphysics of personal identity, and many other fascinating and fundamentally important topics." -- Jeff McMahan, University of Oxford

"This book will reward anyone interested in the question of whether there's reason to live forever. And let's be honest, that's all of us. Cave and Fischer offer up a timely debate on a timeless issue." -- Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin, Sam Houston State University