Rather, they pay others to ask them. The Templeton Foundation awarded $5 million to a philosopher at UC Riverside to set up a research project centering on the concept of mortality. John Martin Fischer will direct $1 million of that money to conferences on the topic, fund post doctoral research in the area, and maintain a website called The Immortality Project. Fischer plans to give the remaining $4 million to the social science, hard science and philosophy communities by means of a series of a competitions and prizes, according to an LA Times blog.