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By Rebecca Hiscott2014-03-16 16:25:56 UTC

When Gennady Stolyarov II was five years old, living in Belarus as the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of collapse, he asked his mother what happens to people when they grow up.

"They go to school," she answered.

And then?

"They work and get married."

And then? And then?

Eventually, his mother ran out of answers. "And then they die," she said.

So begins Stolyarov's Death Is Wrong, a children's book that describes the author's struggle with the concept of death. The narrative refutes the notion that death is the inevitable conclusion of life. Stolyarov hopes it will teach children that bodily decline is, in fact, a state that can and must be overcome through technological progress.

Referring to his first encounter with the concept of death, Stolyarov tells Mashable, "I was bewildered. Why do innocent people who have done nothing wrong deserve the death penalty?"

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Children's Book Teaches Kids 'Death Is Wrong'

57764131 story Posted by samzenpus on Sunday March 16, 2014 @12:35PM from the do-you-want-to-live-forever? dept. destinyland writes "Hoping to inspire life-extending medical research, science fiction author Gennady Stolyarov has launched a campaign to give away 1,000 free copies of his transhumanist picture book for children, Death is Wrong. 'My greatest fear about the future is not of technology running out of control or posing existential risks to humankind,' he explains. 'Rather, my greatest fear is that, in the year 2045, I will be...wondering, "What happened to that Singularity we were promised by now...?"' Along with recent scientific discoveries, the book tells its young readers about long-lived plants and animals '"that point the way toward lengthening lifespans in humans,' in an attempt to avoid a future where children 'would pay no more attention to technological progress and life-extension possibilities than their predecessors did.'" You may like to read: Post

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