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Vampiric immortality is characterized by being conditional, inasmuch as continued access to human blood is necessary to sustain it. [4] [17] Zombie immortality, on the other hand, is characterized by the loss of personhood. [16] [18] Works of fiction featuring immortality can be classified by the number of immortals: one, several, or everyone.
Immortality in religion refers usually to either the belief in physical immortality or a more spiritual afterlife. In traditions such as ancient Egyptian beliefs, Mesopotamian beliefs and ancient Greek beliefs, the immortal gods consequently were considered to have physical bodies.
Eternal youth is the concept of human physical immortality free of ageing. The youth referred to is usually meant to be in contrast to the depredations of aging, rather than a specific age of the human lifespan. Eternal youth is common in mythology, and is a popular theme in fiction.
Scholars and critics have identified many themes of The Lord of the Rings, a major fantasy novel by J. R. R. Tolkien, including a reversed quest, the struggle of good and evil, death and immortality, fate and free will, the danger of power, and various aspects of Christianity such as the presence of three Christ figures, for prophet, priest, and king, as well as elements like hope and ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance (1852). Through the legend of the clairvoyant "veiled lady" (who later turns out to be real), the stagecraft and duplicity of Spiritualism is contrasted with the failed Utopian ideals of the Blithedale community.
Maimonides describes the Olam Haba in spiritual terms, relegating the prophesied physical resurrection to the status of a future miracle unrelated to the afterlife or the Messianic era. According to Maimonides, an afterlife continues for the soul of every human being: soul now separated from the body in which it was "housed" during its earthly ...
1927: Harry Emerson Fosdick — Spiritual Values and Eternal Life; 1928: Eugene William Lyman — The Meaning of Selfhood and Faith in Immortality; 1929: W. Douglas Mackenzie — Man's Consciousness of Immortality; 1930: Robert A. Falconer — The Idea of Immortality and Western Civilization; 1931: Julius Seelye Bixler — Immortality and the ...
The elixir of life (Medieval Latin: elixir vitae), also known as elixir of immortality, is a potion that supposedly grants the drinker eternal life and/or eternal youth. This elixir was also said to cure all diseases. Alchemists in various ages and cultures sought the means of formulating the elixir.