Is immortality good?

Jamil 2021-12-09 08:01:23

Immortality, I always thought it was a beautiful, hard-to-reach desire. I never seriously thought about what the world would become if human beings were immortal. If I can live forever, I will no longer consider what I should accomplish today. The length of time is no longer the benchmark for me to measure value. I can spend one year, five years, 10,000 years, and only read one book, anyway. Time is eternal, and there is no longer the kind of regret that the flies of time brings us. Those who should be relieved will always be relieved. Time is the killer of all emotions and things. If I can live forever, loving someone in my life is just a joke. My lover in 2018 may not love again after a hundred years, and it is not impossible to fall in love again after a thousand and ten thousand years. Maybe This can be regarded as renewing the front edge, meeting again in the next life? It sounds funny, more like a joke. Love no longer can withstand promises, no expectations, no yearning, and eventually will die. In such a world of immortality, love will ultimately only represent the satisfaction of desire. As for feelings other than love, such as family relationships, people say that there is no filial son before the bed for a long time. I feel that there is no filial piety in the world of immortality. Just because the difference between the ages of parents and children is only 20 or 30 years old, it is only a few seconds in the life of tens of thousands of years, and the variables are so large that they may be scattered when they walk, tens of thousands of years. , Forget where you came from, there is no way back, there are no descendants, eight generations of ancestors, I dare not imagine. If you can live forever, what kind of peak will humanity eventually go to? At the beginning of human beings, the goodness of nature is just stupidity, just being indifferent. When there are not only human spirits who have lived for tens of thousands of years and young people who have just been born in the world, the level of human nature is the same as the gap between the rich and the poor in the current society. The survival of the constructed relationship society is extremely terrifying. To be born means that there is no death, so I would rather never be born. Fortunately, human beings have only one hundred years of life, one hundred years is not enough, but it is this feeling of limited time that allows us to perceive the meaning and vitality of life. I am willing to spend half my life loving someone and let him feel my wholeheartedness. , I will be grateful that time has given me the opportunity to love only one person in my life and experience the romance of "you will be the rest of my life". I am willing to spend half my life filial piety to the people who support me, even if one day I will be mournful and white, I will still accept the passing of life calmly. I am willing to experience the pleasure of time passing and the regret of not returning... I am afraid of aging, but I am not afraid of death.

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Death Becomes Her quotes

  • Lisle Von Rhuman: So warm, so full of life. This is life's ultimate cruelty. It offers us the taste of youth and vitality. And then, it makes us witness our own decay.

    Madeleine: Well, it is the natural law.

    Lisle Von Rhuman: Oh, screw the natural law!

    [She opens a box to reveal a vile containing a potion]

    Madeleine: What is that?

    Lisle Von Rhuman: What you came for, a touch of magic in this world obsessed with science. A tonic, a potion.

    Madeleine: What does it do?

    Lisle Von Rhuman: How old would you guess I am?

    Madeleine: I wouldn't.

    [Continues looking at the potion vial]

    Lisle Von Rhuman: Come on, don't try to flatter me.

    Madeleine: 38.

    [Lisle looks insulted]

    Madeleine: Oh, 28. 3... 23.

    Lisle Von Rhuman: I am 71 years old! That's what it does. It stops the aging process dead in its tracks and forces it into retreat. Drink that potion and you'll never grow even one day older. Don't drink it, then continue to watch yourself rot.

    Madeleine: How much is it?

    Lisle Von Rhuman: The sordid topic of coin, I'm afraid, is not so simple. The cost, you see, it's different for everyone.

    Madeleine: Well, for me, how much?

    [She does the arithmetic on a notepad, while Madeline tries to peak; she holds up the paper, showing the price]

    Madeleine: Well, thank you very much. I think I should be going.

    Lisle Von Rhuman: SIT!

    [Madeleine sits]

    Lisle Von Rhuman: Hold out your hand.

    [She stabs Madeline's left index finger with a dagger]

    Madeleine: OWWWW! WHAT ARE YOU, NUTS?

    Lisle Von Rhuman: Watch.

    [She dips the tip of the dagger into the potion, then drips the small drop into Madeline's wound, which takes the age of Madeline's left hand]

    Madeleine: Check okay?

    Lisle Von Rhuman: Fine.

    [as Madeleine takes out her checkbook and begins writing out a check]

    Lisle Von Rhuman: But you must make me a promise. The secret that we share must never become public. You may continue your career for 10 years, 10 years of perfect unchanged beauty. But at the end of that time, before people become suspicious, you have to disappear from public view forever. You can retire. You can stage your own phony death or... as one of my clients simply said, "I want to be alone".

    Lisle Von Rhuman: No! She's not!

    [Lisle nods reaffirmingly]

    Lisle Von Rhuman: Wow!

    [Madeleine hands Lisle the check, as Lisle hands Madeleine the potion vial]

    Madeleine: Bottoms up.

    [She drinks the potion]

    Lisle Von Rhuman: Now a warning.

    Madeleine: *Now* a warning?

    Lisle Von Rhuman: Take care of yourself. You and your body are going to be together a long time, be good to it. Simpre vive: Live forever.

  • Rose: [Rose walks all the upstairs and into Madeline's bedroom, carrying a tray of Madeline's breakfast and a Book Party invitation, as Madeline is still asleep] Good Morning, madam. You look absolutely marvelous.

    [Opening the curtains, waking Madeline]

    Madeline Ashton: Wait. Aren't you forgetting something?

    Rose: But it's only Thursday. You told me I'm supposed-...

    Madeline Ashton: Never mind. I think I need to you say it every morning from now on.

    Rose: Very well. Oh, madam, you look younger everyday.

    Madeline Ashton: Thank you, Rose. Thank you so much, how sweet of you say.

    [Grabbing the envelope]

    Madeline Ashton: What is this?

    Rose: Those are your invitations to Miss Helen Sharp's book party tonight. They just came.

    Madeline Ashton: [Whispering, while opening the envelope] Helen Sharp.

    [She opens the envelope and reads the title of Helen's book]

    Madeline Ashton: "Forever Young"?

    Rose: I like that title.

    Madeline Ashton: [laughs histerically] "Forever Young and Eternally Fat". Oh, clever little witch, she sent seating assignments.

    [Puts the invitations down]

    Madeline Ashton: You know kind of find it hard to believe that he actually got up early and made his side of the bed.

    Rose: Oh, no, madam.

    Madeline Ashton: So, where'd he sleep?

    Rose: [She points her index finger upwards]

    Madeline Ashton: Again?