On the left is a linocut by Max L Altekruse, circa 1960

Morality

Mark Altekruse
2 min readJul 22, 2020

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We are not meant to live forever. It was not Divine Providence that proclaimed humans mortal. The natural world established that truth. As with all living things, we are subject to conception, gestation, birth, aging, and death. It is what we do while we are alive that offers the possibility of immortality. To a degree.

The idea of immortality manifests in the way people of the future view our deeds. But the idea of it does not last forever. The…

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