From the Fear to Die or from the Fear to Live?
Death has always been a mystery throughout human history. It has even been the undefeatable enemy. Religions, philosophy and science have attempted to unroll what is behind death. We have formulated concepts that we do not actually die but we continue to live in resurrection or in rebirth in different forms of life. These concepts had the underlying principle that there is something in us that will not die. Different times it took different names as soul, person, self, consciousness etc though each of them held specific connotations. In the post modern era we have reached the understanding that what we feel, think or express is all from our body. Science also made its efforts to attain immortality for the body and has succeeded at least in investigating different possibilities of immortality. Though death is a reality to be faced we do not know what it exactly is. So we have changing concepts regarding death and immortality. It is discovered that the deep quest within us to have immortality is a neuro-phenomenon within the human constitution. As the science progresses we may have access to immortality. One of those ways we pass into long life is through permanent juvenalisation. Since brain has a lot to do with our thinking feeling and deciding and whatever makes us a person preservation of brain is another way we access immortality. As the machine becomes integral part of our personal lives we have assistance of technology also for making us immortal. We must reflect what our achievable immortality could mean to us personally and socially.
Along with our attempt to be immortals what we require is a perspective; daring to live our contingency. If we are ready to do that we prove that we can live here in freedom even if we are to die.
Along with our attempt to be immortals what we require is a perspective; daring to live our contingency. If we are ready to do that we prove that we can live here in freedom even if we are to die.
