Immortality Immorality: Difference between revisions

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* ''[[House of the Scorpion]]'': People clone themselves, then kill the clones in order to harvest their organs and to prolong their life.

* More or less the entire point of ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray]]''.

* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series, Voldemort doesn't care what he has to do or who he has to harm or kill to preserve his own life. {{spoiler|The [[Soul Jar|Horcruxes]] he uses to guard against death are so evil that not even dark wizards want to talk about them; murder and something JK Rowling describes as "nauseating" are required to make one, and each Horcrux created causes the degradation of the maker's soul.}}

* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series, Voldemort doesn't care what he has to do or who he has to harm or kill to preserve his own life. {{spoiler|The [[Soul Jar|Horcruxes]] he uses to guard against death are so evil that not even dark wizards want to talk about them; murder and something JK Rowling describes as "nauseating" are required to make one, and each Horcrux created causes the degradation of the maker's soul.}} Not even [[Dirty Coward]] Peter Pettigrew is willing to go as far as Lord Voldemort does to achieve immortality.

** Conversely, the eponymous Philosopher's Stone of the first book was held and used by Nicholas Flamel for centuries, with no suggestion that it was at all morally questionable. However, Flamel agreed to destroy the Stone to keep it out of Voldemort's hands (though it is also hinted that he and his wife were [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|sick of immortality anyway]]).

* In the [[Sherlock Holmes]] story "The Adventure of the Creeping Man", Professor Presbury's use of a rejuvenation drug causes him to exhibit animal-like behavior. Note that Holmes' comment, quoted above, indicates that he disapproves of immortality in and of itself.

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* In the ''Secret Country'' books by [[Pamela Dean]], the [[Big Bad]] Melanie and her brothers became immortal using the blood of a (sentient) unicorn they killed in what was supposed to be a ritual hunt.

* Thomas Didymus and John believe Pentexore is an abomination because no one should have life everlasting on Earth in ''[[A Dirge for Prester John]]''.

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