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Category Archives: Immortality

How to Be Immortal, Even If You Die

May 7, 2016by lalancaster Leave a comment

One topic I don’t often talk about on this blog because it’s not exactly science fiction, is immortality brought about by fame. We see it from the pyramids to the […]

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Culture and Society, Immortality

Of Grasshoppers and Kindergartners

February 15, 2016by lalancaster Leave a comment

Do all kids go through a phase where they squish bugs for fun? I got my opportunity one summer growing up in Salt Lake City. It was a hot year […]

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Culture and Society, Immortality

Modern Immortals- Jay Z

November 20, 2015by lalancaster Leave a comment

Sometimes a youthful appearance without significant aging and an old picture of a person’s doppelganger is enough to spark rumors of immortality. Sometimes, the person takes actions that feed those claims. That’s […]

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Culture and Society, Immortality

Immortality and Memory- The Forgetting

October 30, 2015by lalancaster Leave a comment

Last week, I discussed photographic memory and whether it exists and it made me think about immortality and memory. I recently asked readers about immortality in general and one of […]

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Culture and Society, Immortality

2015 Immortality Poll Results

August 29, 2015by lalancaster Leave a comment

The results of the 2015 poll are in, if you missed voting in it, don’t worry, it’s not going to close and I may report on it again if it […]

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Immortality

Human Immortality In Literature

July 9, 2015by lalancaster 2 Comments

People have always dreamed about immortality. The Epic of Gilgamesh, 4,000 years old and thought to be the first work of literature in human history, is the tale of a […]

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Immortality, Writing Science Fiction

Leap Forward…One Second

June 29, 2015by lalancaster Leave a comment

If you are reading this in a post-apocolyptic world, it is because the moment this was posted, 3:59:59, Alaska Time, there was a leap second. Air traffic controll towers and […]

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Immortality, Uncategorized

An Eternal Student

June 18, 2015by lalancaster Leave a comment

If you would never age and never die, would you ever get tired of living?If you asked me ten years ago, I would have said no. Now I’m not so […]

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Culture and Society, Immortality

Modern Immortals: Leonard “Live-Forever” Jones

June 7, 2015by lalancaster Leave a comment

We’ve all seen some pretty wacky political candidates, but Leonard “Live-Forever” Jones (1797-no real surprise 1868) might beat them all. He ran for each presidential election from the 1840s until […]

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Culture and Society, Immortality

In Memoriam- Sue Ann Bowling-Scientist, Author

May 30, 2015by lalancaster 2 Comments

Once a discussion with some of my author friends wandered toward immortality. We asked “if we were immortal would we ever become tired of living?” Most said probably, that they’d […]

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Culture and Society, Immortality

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