I don't want to achieve immortality through my work ... I want to
achieve it through not dying.
-- Woody Allen, quoted in: Edward Lax, Woody Allen and his Comedy, ch. 12 (1975),
quoted from The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations
Death:
http://www.vhemt.org/
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
QUOTES
q1="The prospect of immortality may seem strange, even frightning. Yet it is within sight" - Ben Bova
qa="The prospect of immortality may seem strange, even frightning. Yet it is within sight" - Ben Bova
qb="Being born is not a crime so why must it carry a sentence of death?" Robert Ettinger
qc=“There are a number of experts in longevity who think that failure of the body to restore itself positively is the real culprit in aging, not time. They feel that if we could just continue to repair and transform our bodies, there would be no reason to die at any particular time.” - Elliot D. Abravanel, M.D.
qd=“There are five fundamental disadvantages to holding the thought that you must die and therefore have no choice about it. These five disadvantages play a significant role in almost every example of human suffering. The five fundamental disadvantages of thinking that death is inevitable are: fear, helplessness, apathy, limitation and self-deception.” Jim Leonard
qe=All that stands between us and eternal life is fear and gullibility: Dread of the unknown forges faith in the unknowable.” The idea that death is inevitable has killed more people than all other causes of death combined.” - Leonard Orr
q2="That's what immortality means. Not: 'Dying after a very long time.' Just not dying, ever." -- Greg Egan
qq="That's what immortality means. Not: 'Dying after a very long time.' Just not dying, ever." -- Greg Egan
"The first immortals are living now," Bova says. "They are among us. And you might be one of them. We have the capability of producing human beings who will live for many, many hundreds of years. And perhaps live indefinitely. - Ben Bova
"As a child I always thought of myself as different," he says. "When I first heard about death, I thought that somehow there has got to be a way beat this and it ain't going to happen to me. I am not going to let myself die."