This has been the most common question of the ages since the first human stood beside the grave of a loved one. We have always longed for immortality because of our obsessive fear of death and our inability to accept the thoug ht of annihilation.
Death is the single greatest fear that most mortals everywhere share.
Our hope for everlasting life is a result of our egocentric mentality that won t permit us to accept us to accept the fact that in the scheme of the universe and nature we have no special, pre-ordained purpose and in death we are no more important than th e most insignificant of creatures. Humanists, those who use intellectually objective reasoning and are no longer brainwashed clones from our ancestral background, hold that all gods, religions and creeds are man-made beliefs based upon ancient folk tales, tribal myths, allegories and primi tive superstitions. If immortality were true, it would be fact of nature and have nothing to do with a leap of faith or a belief in religious creeds. And if we had a soul which was to live forever, it would be a fact of nature absolutely apart from the endless beliefs that w e humans, in desperation, have sought and created. Nature emphatically denies immortality and all creatures that live will die and revert to their elements in the earth.