Oh, You Want To Live Forever? Dept.

An article on the way Buddhism and science intersect on certain key issues features this line: "Unlike Christ, who promises eternal life, the last words of the Buddha reportedly began, 'Decay is inherent in all things.'"

It's timely and appropriate that I came across this piece right around the same time I started reading Miguel de Unamuno'sThe Tragic Sense of Life, that man's philosophical treatise on the collision between the romantic impulse to live forever and the grim certainty that etern...