Immortality In The Great Gatsby

It is never easy to understand something as vast and intangible as death. We can use our logic to lay down a foundation as to what we think death is like, but the reality is that it is impossible to know what the state of nothingness is like; the only way we can know is by actually dying. But a dead person cannot really explain to others what it’s like being dead. For humans, knowing that death is inevitable but not what it is like terrifies us, and experiment with drugs, go to parties, waste our lives, devote ourselves to a religion in order to cope with the idea of mortality as portrayed in The Great Gatsby written by the American author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. We promise ourselves an afterlife of some sorts or reincarnation as another being

For the mortal, time is a commodity that can never be replenished; once it is lost, it is gone forever. Yet for the immortal, time is a curse in which they are forced to endure the vastness of eternity. Sure if you were immortal you would not have to worry about dying, but it also means that everything around you, all those you love and cherish, will become dust in the wind. At some point within eternity, one will develop alexithymia after witnessing old and new loved ones vanish and seeing history repeat itself over and over again. No longer will one be considered human, because only tiny pieces of their humanity and sanity would still remain, leaving behind a brain dead, catatonic carcass waiting for the sweet embrace of death to grasp them.

Other religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism proclaim the idea of reincarnation, where our bodies are just vessels to our spirits that will move to another vessel upon the demise of the prior. Immortality in the case of these religion, does not bring about the same suffering. When the spirit leaves a vessel, the memories are forgotten creating a full rebirth of itself within a new entity. However, there are still problems with