BECOMING IMMORTAL Humans did not want to accept their own mortality any longer, humanity had become non-religious, materialistic. People didn’t believe in the immortality of the soul any more. Yet the fear of death and the desire for immortality remained. "The production of immortality is dependent on technology and social organization. And the maintenance and development of technology need the permanent investment of energy and work. People may have been relieved from death—but they were not relieved from work."