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‌Search for other examples of human endeavors for immortality throughout the world. Share your findings with your classmates. Quests for Immortality Humans have long harbored an obsession with living forever. Quests for immortality date back many centuries. Let’s look at some historical examples from around the world. Quests for immortality The title character hears of a flower on the ocean floor that will restore his youth. Despite a warning from the only people ever granted immortality by the gods - that his quest will ruin the joys of life - Gilgamesh picks the flower. His success doesn’t last. He inevitably loses the flower, and eventually, like all mortals before and after him, he dies. The Epic of Gilgamesh Ancient Egyptians believed death was only a path to eternal life, and the desire to ensure immortality was woven into their culture. As Egypt gained more prosperity, the practices for burying people became a status symbol of wealth as well. This led to the creation of elaborate graves and more sophisticated methods of preserving bodies. Mummies Cryotherapy was developed in the 1970s by a Japanese scientist. A cryotherapy chamber is a tube-shaped enclosure that covers a person’s body with an open top to keep the head at room temperature. Soaking the body in ice cold water stimulates the immune system while reducing painful effects. It is designed to slow the aging process. Cryotherapy Chambers Some scientists predict a future where humans are far more intimately connected with their electronic devices than we are today. They invite us to work towards a brain-machine interface that would fundamentally integrate us with our technology, with both parts working together as one. We may, eventually, be able to capture our beings within a computer, living forever as digital memory accessed by a piece of software. Brain-Computer Interface Dive into Culture The Secret to Immortality 65

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