Totally Awesome ideas! The author's concept of immortality rings true with me, with one important difference. Allow me to elaborate: I am a songwriter, and I also play tunes from many folk styles. Some of the songs I play are so old that the author's name has been lost to knowledge - but these songs still live on. To me, it has always seemed that it is not when the author's name is remembered that they achieve immortality, but when the name is forgotten - but the tune is still remembered. This is the kind of immortality I strive for - to create a song that will be sung well after my physical body is departed. Then, that part of my being, my very soul, will be immortal. As for the rest of me, well it might as well be a part of a dog, a shark, a tree and eventually an obsidian sphere when my bones are but dust that have blown over the edge of the earth and into the mouth of a volcano, merged with other minerals, been compacted by massive geological pressures, cool, and emerge near a post human encampment of pygmy Irish centaurs... but I digress...