I Am Legend Vs Quest For Immortality

Time moves forward, and only forward. It’s a circle – we are born, raised, we live, then we die. But have you ever imagined what would happen if you were endowed with immortality? What if you could not die no matter how many decades had passed, while the world around you keeps changing and everyone else keeps aging? Would it be wonderful to live forever like that? Then you should take a look at Tuck Everlasting, a novel written by Natalie Babbitt in 1975 which focuses on the negative side of immortality.

Society is big on staying and looking young. People are constantly working out, watching what they eat, and getting surgeries such as botox and breast augmentation. Our society is too concerned on looking youthful. Morrie had aging in better perspective, "The young are not wise, they have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live every day when you don't know what's going on? When people are manipulating you, telling you to buy this perfume and you'll be beautiful, or this pair of jeans and you'll be sexy… It's very simple. As you grow you learn more. If you'd stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, it's growth." Aging is more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die and that you live a better life because of it.

This is greatly illustrated in the book "Monkey" where the Monkey King mentions his desire to live forever at numerous points.

Why would someone want to be immortal if they cannot share their life with others? Sharing with others is what life is about. Making connections and relationships

With a respectable argument against the idea of pharmaceutical advances eventually leading to immortality, Lexchin uses multiple forms of rhetoric, mostly logos, to sway the readers. He sets our deep fantasies of someday being able to live forever against our rational minds and backs up his case with sound logic and viable examples that leave us no doubts about human limitation.

This is due to the consistency of their individual characteristics remaining the same for so many years. Problematically, Williams asserts the immortal life would be undesirable, or unlivable since we will inevitably exhaust our categorical desires.

Have you ever dreamed of living forever? Or have you had a fear of dying? Well the Tucks ,(From the book Tuck Everlasting, by Natalie Babbitt), had discovered a spring with everlasting water; or water that keeps you alive forever without aging, which they drank. After some time, the man in the yellow suit, figured there was something fishy about the Tucks, and discovered the Tucks’ secret about the spring water. The man in the yellow suit wants to sell the spring water. The Tucks appose. Here are a few reasons I oppose as well. First, there is only a limited amount of spring water, and there will be a fight over who gets it. Next, if everyone lived forever, the world would be overpopulated. Lastly, if there is no death, there

The aging process in late adulthood is called senescence. People cannot stop the effects of aging but there are alternatives that can help ease the process. These measures are not always followed because people make poor life choices such as smoking. Aging adults will even spend millions of dollars trying to slow the process of aging. No matter how much money they spend aging will occur.

What are people willing to do to maintain a healthy mind and body? A former emperor of china, Qin Shi Huang, killed himself trying to live forever by consuming age-stopping mercury pills. In the 1400's Pope Innocent VIII believed by transfusing three young boys blood into himself he would absorb their youth, he died in the process. In the 1800's Leonard Jones ran for president with the promise to achieve immortality, he believed this would be accomplished through prayer and fasting, later that year pneumonia led to his death.

Therefore, Williams’ asserts the immortal life would be undesirable, or unlivable since we will inevitably exhaust our categorical desires (100).

I agree with Edith Hamilton’s statement that men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul because in Greek mythology, the heroes were not afraid of death. They were only concerned with being remembered as a great person. The idea of a greater afterlife gave them courage to conquer any barrier that stood in their way. Hercules is an excellent example of this idea, as he was asked to complete twelve impossible tasks in order to redeem himself after killing his wife and children. As one of the strongest people on earth, he was confident in his abilities, and he eventually finished the tasks. Each undertaking promised certain death to Hercules, but he was willing to risk his life to be remembered as a prominent hero. He ultimately

Since the beginning of human history, emperors, conquistadors, alchemists, and many curious and powerful individuals have been in a fruitless search for a chance to transcend the realm of mortals and achieve immortality. Even now, at the dawn of the 21st century, the desire for immortality is still prevalent in our society today. However, while the dream for eternal life is still alive, the search for immortality is no longer just driven by power and greed, but for the universal gain of humanity – to solve many social and economical reasons that result from the current imperfect prolongation of life. Modern biogerontologists, people who study ageing, are determined to uncover the secrets of

[_KB__] (b) Choice to Prolong Life. I want my life to be prolonged as long as possible within the limits of generally accepted health care standards.

In our day and age as we know it, there have been astounding advancements in medicine. The average life expectancy has risen. People are being educated in issues that surround a healthy life style. As a society, we are trying to increase our life span and defeat death. While people are following strict

He sets out the number of guidance that meant to assist in establishing the building of which lifespan can become ‘eternal’. (Vitruvius, 1960) However, in modern, ever changing society, Vitruvian stance of permanence becomes partly invalid and problematic.