immortality

thumb|The Fountain of Eternal Life in [[Cleveland, Ohio, United States, is described as symbolizing "Man rising above death, reaching upward to God and toward Peace."]]

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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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Contents

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

thumb|The Fountain of Eternal Life in [[Cleveland, Ohio, United States, is described as symbolizing "Man rising above death, reaching upward to God and toward Peace."]]

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.

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