Your quest for immortality begins with your nature, your being, your yearning to live and not be absent from the reality that makes such a thought possible. A millennia of death, destruction, pestilence and what you know as the circle of life has crippled your ability to conceive such an existence equal to your inability to grasp reality. Ask yourself but one question.... What use is immortality after you have perished, shaken the coils of this realm you find dangerous, sinful and in need of a continuous heartbeat let alone a consciousness to regard, (need I point out the obvious, PERCEIVE) your very existence.... within reality? Everlasting life, a phrase, a term derived from a wish not to die. Imagine the harm you would perpetuate on young and impressionable minds with a purely subjective tenet declaring it is only possible after death? Is this a contradiction only we can perceive and acknowledge? Is it only we, immortals, that do not see this as a conflation of an objective fact like water will exist from an open container after evaporation and / or condensation with a subjective thought it will still be available? Ask the marooned survivor on a desert island alone, without the knowledge to find or create a potable source to sate his thirst by sipping the air. As a child I sincerely remember adults speaking of lost loved ones and how they were so much better off where they were.... Not here but Heaven? So what the frak is the draw to stay here on this desolate ball of clay, metals and minerals when we can be whooping it up in Heaven with our loved ones? Make no mistake, we have been aware of this contradiction far longer than any of you could know. We grieve for the lost mortals we loved and existed with. We pined for a means to pass on our ability to survive the perils of a world full of virus, bacterial and natural disasters and stood transfixed by the multitudes of deaths caused by you mortals. Your envy of other's abilities, possessions and very lives subordinated your reason to control, pillage and looting of those around you. You justified such acts as divine intervention and manifest destiny long before the United States coined the phrase. Moral justification of one's actions is a polar opposite weapon of control your societies used to control the mortals, guilt. Now are you beginning to see our code?