Definition of Immortal
With origin in the Latin immortālis ,
the immortal adjective is used to qualify the one whose
life is eternal since it can not pass away . Death, therefore, never
reaches the immortal.
It is important to keep in mind that
every living being is born, develops and dies: there is no one who is
truly immortal. Always, sooner or later, the one who has life ends up
dying. That is why immortal beings belong to the field of fiction or mythology .
The death as end of life,
is the result of the extinction of the homeostatic process . In
the supposed case of an immortal, that does not occur and the organism remains
in operation.
It can be said, in short, that biological
immortality is impossible , at least in the current state of scientific
and technological development. There is no way to prevent aging and
deterioration of the cells that result in the death of the living
being.
On the other hand, it is possible to
speak of another type of immortality. For some religions , the
body dies but the soul is immortal. This means that, when a
person dies, his soul continues to "live" in another
dimension or reincarnates in a different body.
There is also another kind of
immortality, linked to the subsistence of the legacy or the imprint of
an individual after his death. That is why it is expressed that
personalities such as the writer William Shakespeare or the
composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , to name two cases, are immortal
since they passed several centuries since they died and yet they are still
remembered and being present in the culture .
