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Deathless
Author: M. Rowan Meyer
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It's been almost 10 years since we stopped dying. Let's talk about that. I interview people with unique relationships to immortality, attempting to answer the question of the decade: Does life still have meaning if it never ends?
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Send us a text It's been almost 10 years since The Event. Almost 10 years since this global phenomenon that changed everything we know about science, medicine, life in general. Almost 10 years since the last time a person died. We keep aging, we get hurt, we get sick. But we just won't die. Obviously, none of this is news to you. But as we approach the double digit anniversary of immortality, it's been taking up a lot of my brain space. There's something about 10 years that makes it feel rea...
Send us a text Chase Faulkner is the author of "After the Fall", a New York Times #1 Best Seller. Nearly ten years ago, Chase and his wife Sarah were about to embark on a skydiving adventure. But The Event caused Chase to fall from the plane... without deploying his parachute. "After the Fall" is a memoir about his road to recovery. We talk about medicine, marriage, and the matrix. (***Chase Faulkner is portrayed by Craig MacArthur Dolezel) Follow us on Instagram @deathlesspod And o...
Send us a text Welcome to the first mini episode of Deathless where we break down the latest headlines in the news about immortality. To help me, Pulitzer winning journalist from The Times... Hannah Altenbach. Main Story: The On Switch An investigative report on precisely when human immortality actually begins. On the Lighter Side: The Dalai Lama After a year's long meditation, the spiritual guru breaks his silence with a single tweet. Follow us on Instagram @deathlesspod And one mor...
Send us a text Charlie Dugan is a stand-up comedian who found his audience after his "final" performance went viral. He's currently on a multi-city tour with his brother. But you won't see them at your typical venues. For this show, Charlie is only playing paramortal hospitals. We talk about comedy out of tragedy, brotherly love, and rebranding "The Event" to "The Biggity Boom". (***Charlie Dugan is portrayed by Jonathan Gregg) Follow us on Instagram @deathlesspod And one more thing... How...
Send us a text Welcome to this mini episode of Deathless where we break down the latest headlines in the news about immortality. To help me, Pulitzer winning journalist from The Times... Hannah Altenbach. Main Story: Longevitism When risk mitigation becomes your whole identity. On the Lighter Side: Record Breaker From Everest to Roatan, Yiwen Huang does the impossible. (***Hannah Altenbach is portrayed by Becca Schneider) Follow us on Instagram @deathlesspod And one more thing... How's ...
Send us a text Grace Kessler is a former nurse who escaped from the Mortiferum, commonly known as "The Death Cult", after a harrowing experience involving the group's founder. Now she spends her days helping others deprogram from the cult's brainwashing practices. We talk about working in the ER during The Event, self detonation, and finding a rhythm that can sustain us through immortality. (***Grace Kessler is portrayed by Sarah Sirota) Follow us on Instagram @deathlesspod And one more th...
Send us a text Welcome to this mini episode of Deathless where we break down the latest headlines in the news about immortality. To help me, Pulitzer winning journalist from The Times... Hannah Altenbach. Main Story: Back Alley Cryogenics A chilling crime on Staten Island involving 14 elderly people. On the Lighter Side: Pig Skin Pierre Coulet gets a whole new skin. From a surprising source. (***Hannah Altenbach is portrayed by Becca Schneider) Follow us on Instagram @deathlesspod And o...
Send us a text Keeley Horne is a painter with a large-scale immersive exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She's been heralded as the post-immortality Hilma af Klint (surrealist painter decades before Surrealism) for her otherworldly pieces. Viewers universally call the show "familiar... as if from a forgotten dream". Several art lovers have had to leave the exhibit following panic attacks. We talk about art, brain tumors, and the spirit realm. (***Keeley Horne is portrayed by Kayla...
Send us a text Welcome to this mini episode of Deathless where we break down the latest headlines in the news about immortality. To help me, Pulitzer winning journalist from The Times... Hannah Altenbach. Main Story: The Crichton-Gupta Experiment A reminder to all that even in cases where the body is annihilated, some part of us continues to survive. So please stop spreading misinformation. On the Lighter Side: Full Flag The NFL is no longer a contact sport. Also... is Bubble Ball a thing...
Send us a text Florian Ascher is an adult entertainer who used to specialize in one particular fetish. Snuff has become a popular niche in pornography since The Event, and Florian found a career there for several years until a particularly extreme shoot in Tokyo. He is now working for himself as a Top 3% creator on OnlyFans, making content that combines his past work with a new outlook on life and immortality. TRIGGER WARNING: We discuss porn, suicide, and family ties. (***Florian Ascher is...
Send us a text Welcome to this mini episode of Deathless where we break down the latest headlines in the news about immortality. To help me, Pulitzer winning journalist from The Times... Hannah Altenbach. Main Story: Extreme Influence Social media star Cambria Wallis gets famous for extreme partying. On the Lighter Side: The Wowzers An Emmy winning children's show about immortality. (***Hannah Altenbach is portrayed by Becca Schneider) Follow us on Instagram @deathlesspod And one more t...
Send us a text CaCoffiny (nee Cacophony) is a drag queen known for theatrically un-aliving herself on stage. Audiences fell in love with her campy transformation just as she was about to retire from drag. A surprisingly philosophical discussion... with a few dick jokes for good measure. She's a true triple threat: Broadway, Disney, and Death. Follow us on Instagram @deathlesspod And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Send us a text Welcome to this mini episode of Deathless where we break down the latest headlines in the news about immortality. To help me, Pulitzer winning journalist from The Times... Hannah Altenbach. Main Story: Birthing Bans China enacts a new policy to reduce population growth. On the Lighter Side: Rubber Bullets Police departments in large US cities switch to rubber bullets, as "lethal force" is now definitionally impossible. (***Hannah Altenbach is portrayed by Becca Schneider) ...
Send us a text Allegra Caravida is a rabbi who, after a sabbatical to Japan, was inspired to adapt traditional Jewish practices to fit our new deathless world. She pioneered the concept of a Living Shiva, a kind of funeral rite to mark -- not a death -- but a passage into a new stage of life. We talk about her nomadic childhood, sabbatical to Japan, and thinking of death as a universal dis-integration. (***Allegra Caravida is portrayed by NB Mager) Follow us on Instagram @deathlesspod And ...
Send us a text Welcome to this mini episode of Deathless where we break down the latest headlines in the news about immortality. To help me, Pulitzer winning journalist from The Times... Hannah Altenbach. On the Lighter Side: Happy Birthday Agnes Agnes Gottsmundottir, the oldest person in the world, celebrates her 125th birthday. Main Story: Cyberterrorism A Permadorm cold storage facility in Bangladesh falls prey to a cyberterrorist attack. (***Hannah Altenbach is portrayed by Becca Sch...
Send us a text Elias Kingsleigh is the CEO of Permadorm, who turned a refrigeration appliance company into one of the most successful and controversial brands in the world. He addresses the future of cryogenics and a recent cyberterrorism attack. We discuss the process of going into cold storage, why the cost of cryo is so high, and whether or not a leaked video from a Permadorm facility is real or a deep fake. (***Elias Kingsleigh is portrayed by Simon Pearl) Follow us on Instagram @deathl...
Send us a text Welcome to this mini episode of Deathless where we break down the latest headlines in the news about immortality. To help me, Pulitzer winning journalist from The Times... Hannah Altenbach. On the Lighter Side: Gamescom Imani Otieno designs a VR game for her ailing grandfather that may help prolong the effects of dementia and Alzheimers. Main Story: Goodbye Sadly, following the contentious interview with Permadorm CEO Elias Kingsleigh, our sponsors have all pulled out. Than...
Send us a text Matthew LaBanca is a performer and teacher helping the youngest generation to navigate immortality through stories and music. He also just so happens to be my husband. We discuss schools, marriage, and the success of this whole podcasting experiment. Follow us on Instagram @deathlesspod And one more thing... How's your immortality going?
Send us a text We're back! Thanks to FICAS, the Foundation for Immortal Conversations and Studies, Deathless is getting a second season. Stay tuned for 8 all new episodes with amazing guests, plus weekly bonus content with fan favorite: Hannah Altenbach. We're diving deeper into immortality than ever before. It's time we finally found out just what happened to us. And what we're going to do about it. It's been over 10 years since people stopped dying. Let's talk about that. Follow us...
Send us a text Jackson Dellario is a founding member of the Angel Guard, an elite team of professional heroes who dive head first into catastrophes. They've saved hundreds from cave-ins, mudslides, hurricanes, tsunamis, explosions, and sink holes. Their motto is "No One Is Abandoned", even in the most extreme of paramortal situations. We talk about gator tours in the Everglades, sink holes, and the craziest meet cute you’ve ever heard. (***Jackson Dellario is portrayed by Ruffin Prent...























