# Request for Proposals: “The Science of Immortality”

Explore UC Riverside’s call for empirical research proposals on personal immortality, funded by the Templeton Foundation—investigating post-mortem survival, belief, and human behavior.

The University of California at Riverside, with the help of a very generous grant from The John Templeton Foundation and under the direction of John Martin Fischer, welcomes proposals to investigate via empirical means questions that concern personal immortality. Such questions are central existential concerns that know no geographical or cultural bounds. They include questions about the possibility and plausibility of post-mortem survival; questions about the influence of beliefs about immortality on behavior, attitudes, and character; questions as to why and how persons are (at least pre-reflectively) disposed to believe in post-mortem survival; and more besides.

The goal of this RFP is to make progress on these questions through empirical research. [Read more](http://www.sptimmortalityproject.com/rfps/).