They were opposed to immortality in principle.’ Jamil laughed. ‘Why?’ ‘Ten thousand years’ worth of sophistry doesn’t vanish overnight, ’ Margit observed dryly. ‘Every human culture had expended vast amounts of intellectual effort on the problem of coming to terms with death. Most religions had constructed elaborate lies about it, making it out to be something other than it was - though a few were dishonest about life, instead. But even most secular philosophies were warped by the need to pretend that death was for the best.
