How to Be Immortal, Even If You Die
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 […]
Category Archives: Immortality
Of Grasshoppers and Kindergartners
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 […]
Modern Immortals- Jay Z
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 […]
Immortality and Memory- The Forgetting
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 […]
2015 Immortality Poll Results
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 […]
Human Immortality In Literature
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 […]
Leap Forward…One Second
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 […]
An Eternal Student
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 […]
Modern Immortals: Leonard “Live-Forever” Jones
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 […]
In Memoriam- Sue Ann Bowling-Scientist, Author
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 […]
The Phoenix Series 