The text centers on ethical questions pertaining to death or to the prolongation of life. By attempting to offer an answer to the problem of life prolongation, or to what might be called the new scientific quest for terrain immortality, we shall reflect on today's quarrel between mortalists and immortalists. Our starting point is the acceptance of a virtual immortality as something really possible. The problem of a merely optimizing extension, i.e., of a life expectancy of 150 years for all, rises, in our view, questions which are sometimes distinct. In this sense, we wish to show that, in spite of the burden of mortality, man's mortal condition has a clear moral sense, that requires of every one a genuine duty to die paradoxically relating to the already known rights to life and to die.
Ethics; Life; Death; Right