Immortality
"Who wants to live forever? As it turns out, most beings wouldn't say no… "
A fact of life is it's finite nature, eventually we all die. A lot of words have been used to contemplate this and it's implications but never the less it is a fact which humans are typically predisposed to avoid as long as possible. Natural Selection tends to weed out those beings which throw their lives away without a second thought. Even those that deeply believe that an eternal paradise awaits them beyond this mortal coil typically don't rush to it off the roof of the nearest tall building. Vast amounts of money are spent on measures to extend our limited time here in this world.
As such, it's easy to see why Immortality is a common element of fantasy and science fiction. The same goes for Longevity, in which the lifespan is extended by a sugnifigant margin.
Types of Immortality
- Biological Immortality: Simply put you stop aging and can go on indefinitely. You can still die, mind you if get crushed, incinerated or blown up, but there's no ticking clock.
- Life Stealing: A life stealer can attain biological immortality by (one way or another) stealing life from others.
- Sequential Immortality: Your body can die, but when that happens there are spares you can inhabit.
- Uploading: A science fiction concept, a computer interfaces with your brain to preserve your consciousness as software running on it's substrates.
- Undeath:
- True Immortality: See Perpetuals, you simply can't die. Get blown up and a bit will regrow a new one.
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