{"id":123100,"date":"2021-05-27T13:22:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T20:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/society-of-immortals"},"modified":"2021-05-27T13:22:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T20:22:39","slug":"society-of-immortals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/society-of-immortals","title":{"rendered":"Society of Immortals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/society-of-immortals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When immortality is available to the masses and not just the rich.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This is when <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Immortality\" title=\"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Immortality\">immortality<\/a> is granted on a large scale: to an entire civilization, or a village. Species that are naturally immortal such as elves fall under this as well. This can sidestep <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WhoWantsToLiveForever\" title=\"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/WhoWantsToLiveForever\">some of the problems inherent to immortality<\/a> because when everyone is immortal then no one is alone and the general culture and mindset <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LivingForeverIsNoBigDeal\" title=\"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/LivingForeverIsNoBigDeal\">is that immortality is \u2018normal\u2019 and death is not<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their source of immortality may be a large or mass-produced <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ImmortalityInducer\" title=\"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ImmortalityInducer\">Immortality Inducer<\/a>. If their immortality involves <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ImmortalityImmorality\" title=\"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ImmortalityImmorality\">Immortality Immorality<\/a> it may overlap with <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TownWithADarkSecret\" title=\"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TownWithADarkSecret\">Town with a Dark Secret<\/a>. There\u2019s also the question of what type of <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Immortality\" title=\"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/Immortality\">Immortality<\/a> the civilization has; a society whose members can <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ResurrectiveImmortality\" title=\"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ResurrectiveImmortality\">respawn quickly after death<\/a> will be different from one whose members <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheAgeless\" title=\"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheAgeless\">never die from old age<\/a> and both will be different from one whose members <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CompleteImmortality\" title=\"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/CompleteImmortality\">never die, period<\/a>. Regardless, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ImmortalProcreationClause\" title=\"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ImmortalProcreationClause\">Immortal Procreation Clause<\/a> is likely to be in effect and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ImmortalityBisexuality\" title=\"\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/ImmortalityBisexuality\">little attention will be paid to the traditional gender roles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When immortality is available to the masses and not just the rich. This is when immortality is granted on a large scale: to an entire civilization, or a village. Species that are naturally immortal such as elves fall under this as well. This can sidestep some of the problems inherent to immortality because when everyone [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":628,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/628"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}