Lenin, Wells, Darwin and Immortality

[rich]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/08/john-gray-immortality

How do we deal with a purposeless universe and the finality of death?
>From Victorian séances to the embalming of Lenin's corpse to schemes
for uploading our minds into cyberspace, there have have been numerous
attempts to deny man's mortality. Why can't we accept the limits of
science?

"The world might be sliding into anarchy, but progress continued on
the other side"

rich