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  2. Biological immortality - Wikipedia

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    Biological immortality (sometimes referred to as bio-indefinite mortality) is a state in which the rate of mortality from senescence (or aging) is stable or decreasing, thus decoupling it from chronological age. Various unicellular and multicellular species, including some vertebrates, achieve this state either throughout their existence or ...

  3. Terror management theory - Wikipedia

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    In many cases these values are thought to offer symbolic immortality, by either a) providing the sense that one is part of something greater that will ultimately outlive the individual (e.g. country, lineage, species), or b) making one's symbolic identity superior to biological nature (i.e. one is a personality, which makes one more than a glob ...

  4. The Denial of Death - Wikipedia

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    Such symbolic self-focus takes the form of an individual's "causa sui project", (sometimes called an "immortality project", or a "heroism project"). A person's " causa sui project" acts as their immortality vessel, whereby they subscribe to a particular set of culturally-created meanings and through them gain personal significance beyond that ...

  5. Why do we die? The latest on aging and immortality from a ...

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    In his new book, “Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality,” Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan sifts through past and cutting-edge research ...

  6. Death anxiety - Wikipedia

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    In the context of particular study, social curiosity and its tendency to foster social connection and relatedness with others acts as a form of symbolic immortality. Symbolic immortality is a conceptual model that can help reduce the fear of death.

  7. Immortality - Wikipedia

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    Most symbolic representations of infinity or the life cycle are often used to represent immortality depending on the context they are placed in. Other examples include the Ouroboros , the Chinese fungus of longevity, the ten kanji , the phoenix , the peacock in Christianity, [ 126 ] and the colors amaranth (in Western culture ) and peach (in ...

  8. Death - Wikipedia

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    The human skull is used universally as a symbol of death. Death is the end of life ; the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.

  9. Tree of life - Wikipedia

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    The "Tree of Immortality" (Arabic: شجرة الخلود) is the tree of life motif as it appears in the Quran. It is also alluded to in hadiths and tafsir. Unlike the biblical account, the Quran mentions only one tree in Eden, also called " the tree of immortality and power that never decays", [24] which God specifically forbade to Adam and Eve.