Longevity Is No Accident
What if sudden accidents were the only causes of death? What if there was no more starvation, heart disease or old age? How long would we live? One simulation at […]
Category Archives: Immortality
Spiders: A Love/Hate Relationship
Halloween is over and it’s time to remove the giant spider you put on your lawn to keep squeamish trick or treaters away, so let’s talk about how people feel […]
Living Forever For One Day
If you had to relive one day for all eternity and you would never age, what day would you choose? Movies like Groundhog Day and more recently, Miss Peregrines School […]
The Language of Longevity
If someone from Elizabethan England were still living, would they find themselves saying, “What think ye?” rather than “What do you think?” As a novelist, I have to make a […]
Results-Would You Share Immortality?
Seven days ago, I asked my readers what they would do if they discovered a “cure” for mortality that would keep people alive (and healthy) indefinitely. I was pretty sure […]
Would you share immortality?
If you discovered a treatment that allowed people to stay alive (and healthy) in their own bodies indefinitely, would you share it? Portions of the novel I’m writing deal with […]
Do any cultures not believe in immortality?
I visited a cathedral during Semana Santa in Ecuador. I knelt in a buddhist temple in Thailand. Then recently, while staring at the screen trying to find a subject for […]
Hungry For Immortality
What do myths tell us about societies and their views on immortality? Most myths imply it’s unattainable or undesirable. Recently, I saw an article on Listverse called 10 mythological ways to become […]
Losing Immortality at the Last Second
What is it about a story where the hero loses at the last second? It’s especially common in myths about the human quest for immortality. When I was preparing to […]
Immortality In Pearl Harbor
Tucked in the back corner of the Valor in the Pacific National Monument in Pearl Harbor, is a small origami paper crane in a glass case. The monument is the […]
The Phoenix Series 