"Precisely because mortality and terminality are different things, jellyfish and other “immortal” beings that we find in nature are also terminal beings in my sense, as they are subject to the friction caused by their emergence. Ending through aging is just one of the forms that the terminal being takes. Even though the terminal being does not age, it is not circumvented; it adopts different forms. The problem, even with “eternal” organisms, is not that they will die, but the fact that they began. To begin is already to experience friction, to wear yourself out (naturally and socially, in the case of humans). Immortality will only manage to perpetuate attrition and terminality. If human life is characterized by discomfort, we don't have anything valuable enough to immortalize. The discourse about the terminal being could convey the idea that the solution is immortality, the non-ending of life. But even if a fairy appeared and bestowed immortality upon us, once we were born this would not solve the primordial ontological problem. After we have been born, immortality would be one more torture, an extension of the unwanted condition. Once we are born, it is better to die. If in this hypothetical immortality we were freed from pain, we would still have to face discouragement and moral impediment. Certainly, we would not be more ethical if we were immortal (we would be like the gods of paganism, eternally immoral)."