We are fragile corporal fragments. We bleed, we breathe. When we are pulled into the theater of illness we suddenly, simultaneously, feel our ephemeral immortal pulse. One we measure, the other we sense.

Life is just one fragment of time, one brushstroke in a picture larger than ourselves, eternal even when we die. This is the indispensable prelude to immortality.

My wife recently came home appalled by an ad she saw in a newspaper for Ashley Madison, a dating website that encourages and assists marital infidelity. Their slogan, "Life is Short. Have an Affair" has generated a lot of attention. Is Ashley Madison immoral? Or is profiting from adultery fair game?

Gradually science has had to confront the possibility of immortality -- not yet for the soul but for the basic fabric of the universe.

LONDON — Most babies born in rich countries this century will eventually make it to their 100th birthday, new research says. Danish experts say ...

Particularly in the case of social media, when taken together the multitude of eternal digital data forms a history of a person's life.