The Concepts of Immortality

Philosophers who believe that death is the end, because they do not believe that there is any such thin as soul or incorporeal mind to survive bodily death, have offered up their own concepts of immortality to help reconcile us to our physical demise. These are not concepts of the immortality of the soul, or of any continuation into the future offered as something like consolations to which we can cling.

The following discussions look at the most standard:1. Social Immortality2. Cultural Immortality3. Cosmic immortality4. Scientific immortality

Social Immortality

This concept belongs to people that when they die, they will live on in their children. This is a belief that we can leave something of ourselves behind when we die, throughout genetic offspring.

Cultural Immortality

This relates with people who would like to achieve immortality through their artistic works.

Cosmic Immortality

People who belong to this group usually say when they die, "I want to be cremated an my ashes be spread out in the forest, because when my molecules can enter the earth, and then enter the plants and the animals who feed on those plants, and I will be disbursed, spread around to the point that, ultimately, I will be blended in with the universe, and have a sort of cosmic immortality.".

Scientific Immortality

This is certainly the most interesting, because it is only one to address our desire to live on, not just in memories of others, in the products of our work, or in our molecules, but with conscious experience. Here, we want to live on as a person, not just an influence.

-With the modern medical advancements, we can preserve our looks and be "better/younger" physiologically in contrast with our chronological age.

-Surgery and transplant have extended many people's lives far beyond what they would otherwise have been.

-The rise of Cryonics ( practice of freezing dead in hopes that once medical science has come out to understand how to reverse their condition, they can be thawed out to new and endless life)

- Rise of generation of computers which will be able of supporting all the contents of neural system.