[ WP ] How immortals die

If you want to live forever, first you have to die. 
 
 Do not tell me that is illogical; I am three thousand years old, give or take a century, and my experience far outweighs yours. Not that you would appreciate that, in this day and age. All people care about is -- what? No, I am entirely on topic, it is your ill-used mental facilities that fail to follow my -- Fine, fine, do not get snippy. You are the one who sought *me* out. 
 
 As I was saying, you have to die. I did. Ages ago. It is why I am here. 
 
 Forget about the'blood of goats' and'eyes of newts' and all that ceremonial crap. I tried that in the early years before I knew better.'T is lies, all of it. 
 
 Death has one purpose, and that is to take life. If you do not have one to give, it will not seek you out. 
 
 No, that is not depressing, it is a fact -- and of course many individuals ended up dying when it seemed they had no life. They had not given up life, they had given up *on* life. It is not the same at all. 
 
 If you are not a part of life, if you are not attached to life, if you have no expectations, no desires, no hopes, no connections, *nothing*, then, when death shall come, he will find you have done his job. He will see in you the absence of what it is he devours, and rather than tear your soul to steal your life, he will pass you by. Death does not kill the dead. 
 
 What do you mean,'what kind of life do I have?' I thought it quite clear that I have nothing to do with life. Surely by now you have grasped that life and death walk together, that one can not be without the other. Being no longer alive, I can no longer die. I *exist* and will do so for eternity. 
 
 Yes, I suppose I could say I'live' forever as easily as I could say I'die' forever -- having done both I no longer do either -- but humanity has not the words to describe what it does not understand. Perhaps, however, *you* will understand. Give up life. Die. Then, you will be immortal. 
 
 Take your time deciding. I can not say I care what happens. Regardless, I will be here.
