Immortality is a pursuit as old as civilization. To the ancient Greeks immortality meant renowned. Hit the world like a meteor, leave a crater so deep and wide that your name, your story, your essence, echoes in the mouths of the living for all eternity. You’re alive as long as your presence endures. There were two main ways to accomplish this. First was glory in battle, around which life revolved. Second was through your children, who carried your name everlasting. That’s why in the second Homeric epic the shade of the dead hero Achilles,