The Immortalization Commission: Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death - by John Gray

John Gray's The Immortalization Commission investigates humanity?s obsession with immortality, examining how scientific and spiritual movements sought to conquer death. He explores figures like Frederic Myers, a psychical researcher who believed in communicating with the dead, and Soviet biologists who sought to physically resurrect Lenin. Gray critiques the Enlightenment-driven belief in human progress, arguing that these attempts at immortality were shaped more by delusion than reason.