That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before.
Margaret AtwoodImmortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be.
Margaret Atwood