“Immortality”: Life and Death
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Mol, Burley, Rosner, Olshansky and Canes
This paper explores the various views and perspectives of immortality such as the traditional sense of just living forever. There is also the religious version of immortality which includes death but reference to life after death. There is a deeper look I would like to take, about the bare quintessential concept of superseding death. What does it really mean to never really die. Does it mean to just go through your whole life forever or to be immortalized through what you have done? Does it mean you become on with God for all eternity? Through examining other thoughts and views on this topic I how to give a solid foundation for what it means to be immortal. In …show more content…
No matter how long you live, you cannot and will not die. Further examining my original opinion on immortality, by not being able to perish, one would eventually find his or herself locked in an inescapable realm of pointlessness, completely devoid of all meaning or reason for living. Author Mikel Burley further recognize this path of thought the author of “The End of Immortality!” Burley examined the stage play also entitled The End of Immortality in which a woman is given a potion that allows her to live to the ripe old age of 337. The character is eventually given the decision in which she may either take the potion again and continue living or, as Burley puts it, “to admit that she has exhausted all that life has to offer.” The character did what many people would agree to be the proper action and chose death. She had felt that life had become so very tedious at that point and was ready for what was to come. While some may argue against this theory of eventual loneliness and loss of purpose, any opposing thoughts will more than likely come from the small-minded who are incapable of grasping the idea of
Through
Mol, Burley, Rosner, Olshansky and Canes
This paper explores the various views and perspectives of immortality such as the traditional sense of just living forever. There is also the religious version of immortality which includes death but reference to life after death. There is a deeper look I would like to take, about the bare quintessential concept of superseding death. What does it really mean to never really die. Does it mean to just go through your whole life forever or to be immortalized through what you have done? Does it mean you become on with God for all eternity? Through examining other thoughts and views on this topic I how to give a solid foundation for what it means to be immortal. In …show more content…
No matter how long you live, you cannot and will not die. Further examining my original opinion on immortality, by not being able to perish, one would eventually find his or herself locked in an inescapable realm of pointlessness, completely devoid of all meaning or reason for living. Author Mikel Burley further recognize this path of thought the author of “The End of Immortality!” Burley examined the stage play also entitled The End of Immortality in which a woman is given a potion that allows her to live to the ripe old age of 337. The character is eventually given the decision in which she may either take the potion again and continue living or, as Burley puts it, “to admit that she has exhausted all that life has to offer.” The character did what many people would agree to be the proper action and chose death. She had felt that life had become so very tedious at that point and was ready for what was to come. While some may argue against this theory of eventual loneliness and loss of purpose, any opposing thoughts will more than likely come from the small-minded who are incapable of grasping the idea of