The Immortalist by Alan Harrington

Published by Granada Publishing Ltd 1973

"Death is an imposition on the human race, and no longer acceptable," reads the first sentence of this extraordinary book. Within the last few years "[W]e have circled the moon, harnessed nuclear energy, artificially reproduced DNA, and now have the biochemical means to control birth; why should death itself, the Last Enemy, be considered sacred and beyond conquest? "