What is immortalityTo see the golden sun and the azure sky, the outstretched ocean, to walk upon the green earth , and to be a lord of a thousand creatures to look down giddy precipices or over distant flowery vales, to see the world spread o...
Immortality can be understood in many ways. The remembrance of somebody by the bereaved might be said to be one kind of eternal life. Fame might be another. Yet, none of these ways fulfills the original desire for continuation of personality and consciou
Well, in regards to immortality meaning – or at least in regards to extending life past the age of 150 or more – my experience is relevant because it alludes to what many philosophers and theologians of the past waxed at great length about : that our souls are eternal and everlasting –...
Immortality is eternal life, being exempt from death; unending existence. Some modern species may possess biological immortality. What it means to be immortal? not mortal; not liable or subject to death; undying: our immortal souls. remembered or celebrated through all time: the immortal words of...
Immortality can be understood in many ways. The remembrance of somebody by the bereaved might be said to be one kind of eternal life. Fame might be another. Yet, none of these ways fulfills the original desire for continuation of personality and consciousness. On the consciousness level there...
to study the works of art and refine the sense of beauty to agony, to worship fame and to dream of immortality, to have read Shakespeare and Beloit to the same species as Sir Isaac Newton to be and to do all this and then in a moment to be nothing to have it all snatched from on...
Another question about immortality often touched on in fiction is whether immortality is even desirable. Mary Shelley’s 1833 story, The Mortal Immortal, explores the trauma and sadness of witnessing one’s family and friends dying over and over again ad infinitum. Another story, The Immortal, ...
What is the price of immortality?Karne Stone
The concept of immortality raises many more issues than just whether eternity is poetic, atemporal or sempiternal. In fact, it even raises a question of perspective. Previous chapters discussed whether a continuity of consciousness is the mark of eternal life; the perspective in that case being ...
put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting?