Immortality: In its medical and philosophical dimensions: is it the goal of every human being?
Perhaps the pharaonic inscriptions and the ancient civilizations that left us traces of expression of one desire, ancient and as old as the entire human species. Since the dawn of history, mankind has had one basic desire, to conquer death. Paradoxically, in trying to achieve that desire, they managed to achieve miracles. From myths and archeology, through arts and religions, to the era of science, technology and space travel. All these human accomplishments share one desire, which is immortality. Analyzing man into his basic elements: what is immortal and what dies? “To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead” The Czech writer Milan Kundera wrote these words in his novel Immortality , expressing a fact that man denies and exaggerates, so that he lives as if he is an immortal ...