People in today's society want to try and find ways for people to live forever or even to live longer. They already have things like supplements to try to make them live longer. People are trying to be healthy by eating healthy, exercising, taking different kinds of supplements and so on. But none of those things will make you live forever. Currently, life expectancy in the United States is about 80 for women, about 75 for men. There is no way possible for somebody to live forever. Or is there? Death is a natural thing in our lives because it happens to everyone. You can't stop death but scientists now are trying to let us live longer.
How would you like to live for 400 or 500 years? And even better, you'd be in perfect health.
On 60 minutes, they talked to a scientist who said that this could be possible in the next 20 to 30 years for the first steps towards immortality!
We don't like facing the fact that we are going to lose the ones that we love or even die ourselves. And in the book when Gilgamesh loses Enkidu he goes to great lengths to find immortality to get his best friend back.In the end of the book the walls of Uruk will be the source of his own immortality because the walls of the city will not fall down.
Also anything that is born, will die. It shows that in the book because Enkidu dies. Gilgamesh felt the loss of his friend, but he doesn't need to be afraid of death and that's what his mind-set was. That death is bad because it took his best friend away from him. Gilgamesh sets out to find Utnapishtim who can tell him the secret of immortality. He tells Gilgamesh to go to the bottom of the lake and get the the plant of immortality. He dives down and stops to take a bath and an animal eats it. This may represent that the struggle to find immortality will always end in defeat. If someone spends their life fearing death, trying to avoid death, they may never experience the many pleasures that life has to offer.
http://www.jasonmoon.org/rants/gilgamesh.htm
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/28/60minutes/main1168852_page2.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody
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