To claim that "immortality is the natural feeling for us," writes Michael Wood in the London Review of Books, "not an error but a postponement or bracketing of indisputable knowledge, a feeling of uncertain duration but potentially lasting all but a lifetime, until bodily evidence makes it a form of idiocy rather than gaiety."
     In other words, to assert that immortality is an inevitable, maybe necessary human feeling is to make it foolishness.  On the one hand, Mr. Wood is correct:  just feeling something does not make it true; this side of death, we can't physically see immortality.  We may believe it exists, but we cannot empirically prove it.  Maybe it is foolishness.
     On the other hand, perhaps we need to frame immortality differently. If we had absolutely no sense of transcendence, then, yes, we could conclude that immortality is a myth.  Yet all of us experience, in some shape or form, transcendence.  We are creatures of transcendence; indeed, rejecting immortality is in itself a backhanded acknowledge-ment of our transcendence.  And if we are transcending creatures, so is the universe:  where else would this possibility come from?
     Then God must be true, too.  Materiality cannot create transcendence.  So ask yourself this:  would a God really give humans feelings for something that doesn't exist?
     Only immortality makes mortality genuinely real.