Alternatives to "immortality"?

[archerships]

If you're not omniscient, you don't know that you're immortal.

If you're not omnipotent, then something could kill you.

Therefore, to become immortal, you must first become God.

Becoming God seems a bit difficult to me...

A more reasonable goal is to become "mortal, but ageless".

But we don't really have any good words for that state.

immortal stems from "im + mortal" = "not mortal".

senescence = "the state of being old: the process of becoming old "

"im + senescence" = "imsenescence"

Still seems pretty clumsy and obscure.

Some other thoughts:

"age-retarded" -- has obvious problems.

"death-resistant" -- not quite, also defined in terms of a negative

"life-fortified" -- sounds like an ad for breakfast cereal

"lifeful" -- hmmm, not quite

"continually rejuvenated" -- accurate, but cumbersome

"indefinite lifespan" -- clumsy

Related concepts:

amaranthine, unfading, deathless, undying
everlasting, eternal, lasting, eonian, aeonian
deific, ceaseless, never-ending, perpetual, unending, eterne
constant, continual, continuous, incessant, interminable, nonstop, ongoing, persistent, relentless, round-the-clock, timeless, unceasing, unending, unfailing, uninterrupted, unremitting, abiding, continuing, durable, enduring, lasting, long-lasting, long-lived, long-standing, old, perdurable, perennial, permanent.

Perdurable is an interesting word - it means "existing or remaining in the same state for an indefinitely long time". But it's quite obscure--I don't remember seeing it before now.

Suggestions?

Comments

[other.livejournal.com]

I thought it was 'unaging'.

[crasch.livejournal.com]

Thanks. "Unaging" is good, maybe that's what I should use. But it still doesn't feel quite right to me:

1. It's defined in terms of negative. It's the difference between being "pro-life" and "anti-choice".
2. I'd also like to substitute it in phrases such as: "She became immortal." => "She became unaging." Unaging seems a bit awkward (though better than most alternatives.)
3. "Unaging" also bothers me because it suggests in my mind a static state. Perhaps a better problem statement would've read "the state of being healthy, growing, and undying unless killed by accident, homicide, or suicide"

[other.livejournal.com]

1. Eternally youthful? Lamnethed? (as in the Rush song) Salmacis? (as in the Genesis song) Flammeled? (as in the alchemist) Philosopher stoned? Elixired up? Age-Immutable?

2. She no longer ages. She stopped aging. She drank the life juice and was lamnethed. She kneeled, touching the stone with her mouth and was stone cold immaculate. The decay has left her body as it had her spirit years ago, now she rejuvinates eternally. Red Powder mets White Powder and a new Methuselah walks the earth. Mr Methuselah, can I call you Ben? The blood will now flow until the end of time, pending no accidents happen (void where prohibited, prohibited where void).

You can say it a lot of ways, just be sure to sound mystical and throw in a lot of sexual images.

3. I guess you'll have to use two terms: 'unaging' and 'flourishing'. Oh well.
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[jozafiend.livejournal.com]

Is there anything wrong with the term transhuman? The word should not be so esoteric as to be out of grasp for the average person, and it shouldn't have alternate meanings. (Much as I like "clarked" I seem to think only of the guy's hair when I hear that.)

I've found transhuman to evoke sufficient knowledge of the term, but enough interest that the average person says, Hey, what exactly is that?! My only issue with 'transhuman' is that until you hit the 120 year barrier of known life possibility, you're not really transhuman, but becoming transhuman. I guess it could refer to the process of crossing over, if you're actively involved in doing something to cause yourself to live past 120.

But I think I'm going to start using death-resistant too - very cute!

[digitalshephed.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you could ask Dick Clark?

[crasch.livejournal.com]

Maybe turn his name into a synonym for the state?

"Dicked" -- uhm, no.

"Clarked" -- "She became Clarked through somatic cell engineering."

Hmmm...that might work..

[digitalshephed.livejournal.com]

Clarked... It could work! I like it. :)

[mrangel.livejournal.com]

Eveready (keeps going and going), or the obscure late '80s, early '90s australasian Oi!

Ah, battery ads, is there anything they can't teach us?

[crasch.livejournal.com]

The Energizer bunny is a model for us all.

To become "energized"
To become the "bunnified"

Hmmm....

Australasion?