I can see your point, in that perhaps the choice was not specifically theirs to make.
But mortality, in my view is specifically what makes humans human, afterlife or no. Simone de Beauvoir wrote a fantastic book whose title sadly escapes me at the moment about a man who becomes immortal only to become something less than human after several thousands of years. He devolves into nothing. Not an animal, not a human, just a creature with no identity.
Humans are born to die.
If the book annoyed you, then it did it's job. It's a book that's designed to make you think. :)
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Re: Tuck Everlasting annoyed me
Date: 2005-05-29 05:48 pm (UTC)But mortality, in my view is specifically what makes humans human, afterlife or no. Simone de Beauvoir wrote a fantastic book whose title sadly escapes me at the moment about a man who becomes immortal only to become something less than human after several thousands of years. He devolves into nothing. Not an animal, not a human, just a creature with no identity.
Humans are born to die.
If the book annoyed you, then it did it's job. It's a book that's designed to make you think. :)