{"id":2264,"date":"2014-03-17T02:49:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T02:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2014-03-17T02:49:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T02:49:07","slug":"death-is-wrong-mashable-slashdot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2014\/03\/death-is-wrong-mashable-slashdot\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Death is Wrong&#8221; Discussed on Mashable and Slashdot &#8211; Post by G. Stolyarov II"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The New Renaissance Hat\" src=\"http:\/\/rationalbusinessjournal.rationalargumentator.com\/tophatwhitesm.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><big><big>G. Stolyarov II<br \/>\n<\/big><\/big><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><big><span style=\"color: #000080;\">March 16, 2014<\/span><br \/>\n<\/big><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">******************************<\/div>\n<p>I was pleased to see that Mashable\u2019s Rebecca Hiscott wrote a fair, thoroughly researched, and factually accurate piece on <i>Death is Wrong<\/i>. Ms. Hiscott interviewed me on March 13, 2014, and incorporated my remarks in her new article, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2014\/03\/16\/death-is-wrong-book\/\">Children\u2019s Book Teaches Kids \u2018Death is Wrong\u2019<\/a>\u201d. I am hopeful that this development will aid in spreading the book\u2019s reach and impact. The book was also listed on <a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.slashdot.org\/story\/14\/03\/16\/1414236\/transhumanist-childrens-book-argues-death-is-wrong\">Slashdot<\/a>, where a brief but fair and factual description has triggered quite an intense discussion, with both supportive and contrary arguments.<\/p>\n<p>I am also pleased that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Death-Wrong-Gennady-Stolyarov-II-ebook\/dp\/B00H4PG0RG\/\">Amazon<\/a> ranking for <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/death-is-wrong\/\">Death is Wrong<\/a> <\/i>has increased to unprecedented levels.<\/p>\n<p>The book is now ranked #6 in the Kindle store in both Children\u2019s eBooks and Children\u2019s Nonfiction in the category of \u201cScience, Nature &amp; How It Works\u201d, as well as #88 overall in the category of all Children\u2019s Books on Science, Nature &amp; How It Works. Could <i>Death is Wrong <\/i>become a bestseller? If so, its long-term impact on the culture could be just what I aspired toward \u2013 educating the next generation of life-extension researchers and activists, so as to accelerate the arrival of indefinite longevity for us all.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2265\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2265\" style=\"width: 827px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Death-is-Wrong-Kindle-Ranking-on-March-16-2014.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2265\" alt=\"Amazon Kindle Store Ranking on March 16, 2014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Death-is-Wrong-Kindle-Ranking-on-March-16-2014.png\" width=\"827\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Death-is-Wrong-Kindle-Ranking-on-March-16-2014.png 827w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Death-is-Wrong-Kindle-Ranking-on-March-16-2014-300x126.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 827px) 100vw, 827px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amazon Kindle Store Ranking for\u00a0<em>Death is Wrong<\/em> &#8211; March 16, 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There remains time to donate to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/help-teach-1000-kids-that-death-is-wrong\/x\/1373593\">Indiegogo fundraiser<\/a> to spread <em>Death is Wrong<\/em> to 1000 children, so as to extend its impact even further.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/project\/help-teach-1000-kids-that-death-is-wrong\/widget\" height=\"486px\" width=\"224px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G. Stolyarov II March 16, 2014 ****************************** I was pleased to see that Mashable\u2019s Rebecca Hiscott wrote a fair, thoroughly researched, and factually accurate piece on Death is Wrong. Ms. Hiscott interviewed me on March 13, 2014, and incorporated my remarks in her new article, \u201cChildren\u2019s Book Teaches Kids \u2018Death is Wrong\u2019\u201d. I am hopeful that this development will aid in spreading the book\u2019s reach and impact. The book was also listed on Slashdot, where a brief but fair and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2014\/03\/death-is-wrong-mashable-slashdot\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1634,41,662,356,104],"tags":[626,1167,2871,2010,2676,106,2675,2682,1738,166,2860,1768,2677,112,2493,103,521,308,2870,1000,46,2872,261,2869,109,105,537],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-2","category-philosophy","category-science-2","category-technology-2","category-transhumanism","tag-amazon","tag-art","tag-bestseller","tag-book","tag-childrens-book","tag-death","tag-death-is-wrong","tag-discoveries","tag-ebook","tag-education","tag-fundraiser","tag-gennady-stolyarov-ii","tag-illustrations","tag-indefinite-life-extension","tag-indiegogo","tag-life","tag-life-extension","tag-longevity","tag-mashable","tag-movement-for-indefinite-life-extension","tag-philosophy-2","tag-rebecca-hiscott","tag-science","tag-slashdot","tag-technology","tag-transhumanism-2","tag-wendy-stolyarov"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2266,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions\/2266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}