immortality

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He may well try to answer that in his State of the Union address — if only because of his desperate desire for immortality.

From Salon • Feb. 20, 2026

And his desire for secular immortality didn’t mean he was pretending to have lofty republican sensibilities.

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2026

A metaphor of L.A.’s past immortality and exploitation after World War II, the crime has fascinated novelists, filmmakers and countless true crime writers.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026

The event, advertised as “a conference for thoughtcrime,” had speakers discuss their most contrarian ideas, from time travel and aliens to immortality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

Sometimes Pollux alone is held to be divine, and Castor a mortal who won a kind of half-and-half immortality merely because of his brother’s love.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton