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The first requisite for immortality is death.

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

I have a strong preference for being alive.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

To be alive at all involves some risk.