We Don’t Need to Be ‘Immortal’

We can ask instead how we’ll survive

Seed parachute by Wolfgang Hasselmann on Unsplash

My oldest essay idea is on immortality. These ideas have been kicking around my files since 1998. We don’t live forever, and I think New Year’s 2023 is a good 25-year prompt to set them free into the sky.

The ideas appear with light, flexible connections, as if fragmented, not because I haven’t tried to fit them into the…