Is Brooke Greenberg immortal?
That's very interesting... but in this case I believe Sisyphus may be right. ! Even if the body still has a baby form, there has to be some form of metabolism going on if she is being fed. One of the side effects of metabolism is physical change of one sort or another. She may not reach an age usually ascribed to humans. This state is explained in the early chapters of the book 'Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health' written by Ron Hubbard and obtainable from a Scientology Org... Accordingly , it is a psychosomatic condition. PS., nothing physical will ever retain its original form.. this is a fundamental law of the universe.
What would you do if you were immortal?
If I'm immortal than this means I do not need to eat, I can't get sick, and I no longer need fear any sort of attack from the surrounding world, and I particularly mean animals. So I'd get on a plane, go to Japan, find a nice little cave along Mt. Fuji, and then set about to writing the novels and short stories that I very much enjoy writing. I'd spend my days wandering around the mountain and traveling around Japan wherever I felt like, and then return to my little cave (which I'd have seriously decked out and furnished over time) and write fiction and breathe and enjoy each and every day knowing that I no longer had to stress over jobs I do not want to work, or the bills I can't afford, or the death that, while I'm not bothered by, would no longer even have to consider in regards to my habit of cigarette smoking. I'm a pretty introverted, private guy, but this is, sincerely, what I'd do. I suspect over much time I'd have had my fill of Japan, or would have interest elsewhere; I would simply do the same, avoiding any sort of work and living in nature and writing stories and maybe selling them if I can or, if not, not worrying about that neither. ---This has been a nice thought. Thanks, Yahoo Answers!
The immortal life of Henrietta lacks chapter 8?
Before she died, scientists took cancer cells from her tumor. Those cells were the first cells which researchers noticed could survive longer than normal cells. If cultivated forever, they would reproduce and never die out like normal cells. With these cells, researchers could test basically anything they wanted to. many researchers found a cure for polio. It helped save millions of animals from being tested. Millions of patients from being tested on too and is a vital branch for many medical breakthroughs today. Henrietta Lacks becomes "immortal" because although she dies, her cells live on forever. You should really read the book, it talks about how racists scientists were back then. They would abduct and experiment on black people. An example is the Tuskegee syphilis experiment. They tested on African American men who had syphilis and once they found a cure, they did not share it with them. They let them die a slow and painful death even though the antibiotics were found thanks to them.
Is it possible to become immortal?
Yes. As we are right now, our "consciousness", our sense of self, is of a physical body, with a cellular structure. With difficult psychological work on oneself, one may be able to create a second body, called a "soul" by various religions, that can live much, much longer than the physical body. We are not given a soul when we are born, it must be created BY THE PERSON who is to have one. The soul has a molecular nature, rather than cellular. It can go anywhere air can go, including, obviously, inside other bodies, since all animal life forms breathe. Thus, we could live other peoples lives by entering into their physical body. With continued work on oneself, one might eventually develop a body with an electronic structure to it, called a "spirit" by various religions. An electronic body is essentially a body of light. Since light actually IS indestructable, omnipresent and eternal, so would a persons spirit. Of course, this means ones sense of self is a part of that body. [A cellular body is basically a body of water. A soul is basically a body of air ("I come like water and like the wind I go" Omar Khayyam). They have different venues. A body of light can leave the galaxy. We can know, to a certain extent, what type of work we need to do to grow a soul. But the creation of a spirit is much more subtle and little is known. The ideas are so outside of our experience that they appear magical or religious to ordinary thinking.
Why do you think Hidan is immortal?
yes i agree with you....hidan is a smelly bastard. i'm glad that shikumaru took care of him. as for his immortality.....that's because he was a successful experiment of the jashin's religious secret jitsu. i'm guessing if you find out what the jistu was and break it then you would break his immortality. but a flaw in that jitsu is that he needs to kill people for it to keep working. by having his head taking and buried so far away from his body, the jistu ceases and there end's hidan. concerning orochimaru and following the jashin, he would most likely get tired, bored & definitely board with there ceremonies and probably opt to kill them all after learning there most valuable jitsu's. i guess that's why he wasn't partnered with hidan.