In his article “The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality” Bernard Williams states his central claim that when immortality is feasible it is intolerable; furthermore it is reasonable to consider death as an evil. He supports his position using the Makropulos case, or the case of EM. This character and circumstance comes from a play by Karel Capek. EM is a three hundred and forty-two year old woman. She has survived this long thanks to an immortality potion invented by her father, a doctor, long before the action of the show. EM explains that his problem with immortality is that his endless life has become incredibly boring, his emotions have become cold and indifferent. He feels that in the end everything has already happened and life has become unsatisfactory. She stops taking the immortality potion and death overtakes her. This evokes the optimistic thought that immortality can be rewarding, if certain desires continue to be satisfied. Williams delves into the idea of ​​these desires, called categorical desires and intrinsic motivation, but first we should confirm the views about death that make talk of immortality desirable. EM's feelings about his life suggest that death is not a terrible thing not only in obvious cases - where death ends pain and suffering. Death can be viewed positively as it prevents life from continuing for too long. This implies two views of death that can refute its being intrinsically negative: the first is that death is not evil because it is the end of only one life and the beginning of another, a spiritual idea. The second view is that death is not bad because it is the absolute end of life. The second vision, total annihilation, appeals to the Epi...... half of the card ......g having an existence that could be terminated is counterintuitive. Under this umbrella my position on atomic disintegration is refuted. However, as a human being, I am largely incapable of imagining an existence that the seemingly limitless forces of the universe cannot undo. I reject the refutation of my statement by postulating that there are universal laws that atomic structures abide by. If atomic structure cannot be killed by anything other than disintegration, then I would have to invent an appropriate appellation for things like planets (which do not have fuel-determined lifespans like stars) and immortals, which are not destroyed unless that extreme universal forces do not intervene. powers. References Williams, B. (1973). The Makropulos case: reflections on the boredom of immortality. B. Williams, Problems of the Self. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.