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[thefirstimmortal]

There are many virtues to growing old.... I am just trying to think what they are.

[thefirstimmortal]

Other men die, but I am not other men; therefore, I'll not die.

[thefirstimmortal]

Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist.

[thefirstimmortal]

"In the future, the idea that death is inevitable will kill more people than all other causes of death combined."

[thefirstimmortal]

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

[thefirstimmortal]

I sometimes hear people say, "Wouldn’t it be boring to live forever?" But would it be more exciting to be
dead?

[thefirstimmortal]

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion, but clearly all religions come from that hope.

[thefirstimmortal]

BJ, sounds the trumpet for people to come together to nourish each other, and to join in the greatest
adventure of all time -- the ending of sickness, aging and death.

[thefirstimmortal]

If we find immortality, it will take forever to test it.

[thefirstimmortal]

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up.

[thefirstimmortal]

I cannot accept the way in which we fix the duration of our life.

[thefirstimmortal]

It is absurd that we are born, it is absurd that we die.

[thefirstimmortal]

Of all human evils, death is the worst, it is the most extreme of all human suffering, by it man is robbed of what is most lovable: life and being.

[thefirstimmortal]

Death is not a netral event in nature, and certainly not a liberation of the soul from the imprisonment of the body, but the violent ending of a living unity, the destruction of the real man.

[thefirstimmortal]

When the world and I vanish from one another, the world ends too!

[thefirstimmortal]

From the immortalist point of view, whoever teaches us to accept or, worse, embrace death in this world can not be the last word in saints. A new kind of sainthood calls to us.

[thefirstimmortal]

I'm spending a year dead for
tax reasons.
Douglas Adams

[thefirstimmortal]

Life is anything that dies when
you stomp on it.

[thefirstimmortal]

Death tugs at my ear and says:
"Live, I am coming";
Oliver Wendell Holmes

[thefirstimmortal]

It is absurd that we are born, it is absurd that we die.
Jean Paul Sarte

[thefirstimmortal]

All I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I have always found.
Samuel Beckett

[thefirstimmortal]

Every day is a good day to be born; every day is a good day to die.
Pope John XXIII

[thefirstimmortal]

St. Augustine in his Soliloquia asks himself the question: "When you have learned that you are immortal, will that be enough for you?" To which he himself gives the remarkable answer: "It will be something great; but it is too little for me."

[thefirstimmortal]

"Of all human evils, death is the worst", it is "the most extreme of all human suffering", by it man is robbed of what is most lovable: life and being."

[thefirstimmortal]

Death is not a netral event in nature, and certainly not a liberation of the soul from the imprisonment of the body, but the violent ending of a living unity, the destruction of the real man.

[thefirstimmortal]

from eternity to eternity

[thefirstimmortal]

What the nature of this continuance will be, and how the mode of existence of the "departed soul," may be conceived, concerning these matters there is no substantiated human knowledge. And one can almost recognize the great minds by their abstaining from the claim to any such knowledge. We recognize them by their silence. Not only in Plato, but in Thomas Aquinas, we find no speculations on what happens to man on the other side of death.

[thefirstimmortal]

The arguments for spiritual immortality, weak when you take them one
by one, are no more cogent when you take them together. For my part,
I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis
has been destroyed, and I am all too sure of the interconnection of my
body and my mind to think that any survival of my consciousness apart
from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself. If I die I
won't go to heaven or hell, there will just be nothingness. I believe
that when if am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am
just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
Here's what happens when you die -- you sit in a box and get eaten by
worms. I promise you that when you die, nothing cool happens.

William O'Rights

[fruitimmortal]

I dread success
To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeded in his courtship.
I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

George Bernard Shaw

[the_algenist]

I do not see myself as a slave to the blind whims of evolution. Evolution is not a sentient process, and can therefore lay no claim to my obedience. I am a sentient being, and therefore by most ethical systems currently in use I should be free to take charge of my own destiny. That death may be a convenient means of speeding up the blind machinations of evolution means nothing to me. Frankly, it doesn’t have any meaning regarding its ‘rightfulness’ in the past, either. Rights have to do with sentient beings. Is gravity ‘right’? No, it just is. Therefore, when it gets in our way, there is no ethical reason for us not to strive against it.

Cant remeber where i found it, but words to live by