The Immortalist

May, 1969

The ImmortalistMan has all but lost his ability to accommodate himself to personal extinction; he must now proceed physically to overcome it. In short, to kill death: to put an end to his own mortality as a certain consequence of being born.Our survival without the God we once knew comes down now to a race against time. The suspicion or conviction that God is dead has lately struck home not merely to a few hundred thousand freethinkers but to masses of the unprepared. Ancient orthodoxies may lin...