[LMB] Immortality for some?

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Rachel Ganz wrote:

>
> > > > Death is the great leveller - it would be a pit to lose that
> > > > last crumb of comfort.
>
> > I'm afraid I don't get why that's comforting.
>
> Perhaps it's a European thing, but I have seen enough
> dictatorships (and have enough related family experience
> thereof) to think that any scheme that hands immortality to the
> people in power (and it would) to be somewhat threatening.

I wonder how many people would want that kind of power if they
didn't have to worry about not existing some day.

A lot of evil powermongering has always seemed to me to be an
effort to avoid being forgotten.

~malfoy
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