[ExI] immortality can become an unhealthy obsession in some

[Mike Dougherty]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Lee Corbin <lcorbin at rawbw.com> wrote:
> Natasha writes
>
>> The term immortality is a misnomer.  Immortality implies a No Exit
>> syndrome(i.e. Satre) based on biological life.
>
> Literally taken, *immortality* means "failure to die", i.e., to
> have some form of continued experience that persists indefinitely
> over universe clock-time (though see [1]).
>

I've watched too many movies to consider immortality to be anything
short of *unable* to die.  That's why I prefaced the anti-aging form
of death avoidance to specifically rule out severe traumatic injury
(like vaporizing oneself with a laser, being liquefied in a horrific
chemical spill, or other gruesomely fantastic end)

Even the "immortal" vampires can be killed.  This is probably a
psychological issue with the fact that humans want to imagine
non-death, but the prospect of eternity is scary enough that we'd like
to reserve a way out even for the bad guys if they're willing to
repent.  I digress...