Many people today wish that they could be immortal. The most common reason that people look for immortality is that either they are scared of what comes after life or as in Gilgamesh he wants to bring his friend back. There are lots of different ways that people seek immortality. For some it is as crazy as freezing yourself, some scientist actually believe that some day you will be able to freeze your self and come back to life. But most people realize that it isn't going to just happen and that scientist need to keep researching, but there are many things we can do to live longer. Some things that people do because they think it will add years to their lives are:
Eating healthyExercising
Taking supplements
This is similar to Gilgamesh because people want to be immortal. The difference today is that we realize that its not going to happen we can only hope by what we do we can add years on to our lives.
Gilgamesh was willing to die if he had to because he wanted the secret to immortality for his friend. Today scientist are willing to spend their whole lives working on immortality but know that they still may die and never get it.
In Gilgamesh when the people start seeking immortality the gods get mad because only they are immortal and humans can't possibly do what they do. So the flood story that often appears in books is how the gods react to the peoples quest for immortality.
There are lots of medicines and treatments for most diseases. But in the end those don't matter because when it is your time to die death will find you.
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