Life is a window of opportunity--a structured systematic window opened by reproductive inheritance and to be closed by systemic failure. Eternal life, if it not to be an oxymoron, must in some sense transcend the cessation of individual biologic systems. Due to a persistent human conviction that idiosyncratic life does not in fact end with death, various rationalizations have been proffered to formalize this belief. As of today, eternal life remains --as does the immanent will of God and the dignity of man--within the Province of Faith.
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