immortality
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Immortality refers to the concept of living forever or achieving a state of eternal existence, often symbolized in art and culture as humanity's aspiration to transcend death and reach toward spiritual fulfillment. It matters to people because it represents fundamental human desires to escape mortality, connect with the divine, and achieve lasting peace.
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- Definitions
- Scientific
- Religious
- Physical immortality
- Causes of death
- Aging
- Disease
- Trauma
- Environmental change
- Biological immortality
- Biologically immortal species
- Evolution of aging
- Immortality of the germline
- Prospects for human biological immortality
- Life-extending substances
- Technological immortality, biological machines, and "swallowing the doctor"
- Cryonics
- Mind-to-computer uploading
- Cybernetics
- Digital immortality
- Religious views
- Abrahamic religion
- Christianity
- Islam
- Judaism
- Indian religions
- Hinduism
- Buddhism
- Ancient religions
- Ancient Greek religion
- Zoroastrianism
- Philosophical religions
- Taoism
- Philosophical arguments for the immortality of the soul
- Alcmaeon of Croton
- Plato
- Plotinus
- Metochites
- Avicenna
- Aquinas
- Descartes
- Leibniz
- Moses Mendelssohn
- Ethics
- Undesirability
- Sociology
- Politics
- Symbols
- See also
- Footnotes
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
- Religious and spiritual prospects for immortality
- In literature
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Immortality is the concept of eternal life and permanent resistance to death from natural causes. Some species possess "biological immortality" due to an apparent lack of the Hayflick limit.