Problema zhizni, smerti i bessmertiya - osnovnaya, samaya glavnaya problema chelovecheskoj zhizni. Jeti problemy vsegda interesovali i zanimali central'noe mesto v ljubom istoricheskom tipe mirovozzreniya - mifologicheskom, religioznom, nauchnom, filosofskom, no osobuju aktual'nost' i ostrotu ona obrela v nashe vremya. Nuzhno li cheloveku bessmertie? Vozmozhno li ono v principe? Ideya lichnogo bessmertiya privlekatel'na v pervuju ochered' potomu, chto: Vse my, ljudi, stremimsya k odnomu i tomu zhe - k schast'ju, zdorov'ju, dolgoletiju i s trudom mirimsya s boleznyami i smert'ju, nesmotrya na to, chto jeti yavleniya schitajutsya neizbezhnymi. Sovremennaya zhizn', napryazhennaya i polnaya stressov, vrode by ne sposobstvuet myslyam o bessmertii, otdavaya predpochtenie sijuminutnym zabotam i trevogam. No nauchnaya mysl' vsegda stremilas' k postizheniju jetoj temy i k putyam dostizheniya bessmertiya. Potomu chto smysl zhizni cheloveka v ego vechnom sushhestvovanii, a esli zhizn' konechna, to vse dela cheloveka stanovyat'sya bessmyslennymi.