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The self-aware being could not find everlasting pleasure in a realm of immortality. The "deal breaker" with the condition of immortality could based in the fact that even though you know, or have been told, that you are immortal, the self-aware being will always feel absurd in the big picture...
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Ok say someone did find the fountain of youth and drank from it, now they are immortal, right? A self-aware being would never be able to shake the doubt of "will it wear off," or be able to come to terms with the concept of eternity. We look at death as the time the absurdity of our lives ceases, but the immortal would have no such event to pin the endpoint of its absurdity...
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