Is Immortality Bad, & Should we use Religion to find Answers?


The class discussion that we had about the badness of death and immortality, at first, made me think that immortality would be a bad thing since there is the assumption that life would then lose some of its meaning, and the premise is that what makes life special is its ephemeral nature.

However, I now disagree with the assumption that immortality is bad on all basis, and the reason why is because immortality is the opposite of death. Further, I am an atheist, so I assume that death is the end. And because I think death is the complete end of us, I reason that immortality, though it might lose some of its meaning when compared to mortality, immortality is still life and must be better than death. 

In objection to this, if immortality were a living hell, then death must be better than immortality because it would end suffering. But really, there is no scientific proof for immortality yet, and there are other ways to explain phenomena besides science. But science demystifies the mystical. So I think people should focus on finding answers about death & immortality with science and not religion.

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  1. Garrett TrentApril 30, 2019 at 7:45 PM

    I like the way you form the premises of your argument from our class discussion with the badness of death and immortality. You tie into your personal beliefs with how immortality is, essentially, still life and better than being dead. Where I think you’re saying the redundancy of immortality would still be follow in line with not taking things for granted. Further, you conclude your argument with, science doesn’t have an answer for the scenario of immortality in the sense that religion doesn’t have proof. I’d like to critique the conclusion, where although science gives us many answers for things we can’t intuitively explain for ourselves, religion still gives us guidance for those unknowns.

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