Immortality
- Ondy Ho
- Feb 7, 2021
- 2 min read
For the longest time, people have always been trying to extend their life expectancy so much that one can live forever, and yet, we all die, eventually. Why do they do it?
Let's look at what crazy things people have done to achieve immortality.
People want to have themselves done in and uploaded to the cloud
Rich people are infusing themselves with the blood of young people
The blood countess Bathory did whatever necessary to get young people's blood.
People drink a potion made with menstrual blood to stay young
Scientists study box jellyfish and try to find the key to immortality
Man who searched for the cure for death, only to learn a lesson at the end.
Qin Shi Huang tried drinking mercury to achieve everlasting life.
People check-in into a frozen pod.
Monks mummified to avoid death.
Men injected himself the extracts from animal testicles.
Full article: 10 Crazy Attempts At Immortality Throughout History
The fear of death is primal to all beings. Therefore, it's logical that people try to cheat. There's no shame in being afraid of death but what does it mean to live forever?
The answer to this question can be traced back to when this blog first started. On one random night, Andy was pondering on how to reach out and help more people. Free The Language is, after all, a one-man revolution against the mainstream. How many learners can one teacher teach and how many of the learners are truly passionate about learning? Time waits for no one and it has already been more than 10 years. Looking for learners one by one isn't a smart thing to do but we don't want to become a business.
A man will die, but an idea could last forever.
Andy can die, as long as there are others who hold on to the torch. Free The Language will live, forever. Andy will live, forever.
That's one of the reasons this website was established, to exist. The world will always go on but if there's a fraction of a chance that we could make it better than that before our time ends, it is our obligation to do so.
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