Why this word is great
IMMORTALIST — [Adjective] Pertaining to a belief in or quest for immortality. From Latin immortālis ("not mortal") + -ist (suffix denoting adherence to a doctrine or practice). Unlike "transhumanist" (which fixates on technological augmentation) or "spiritualist" (which seeks communion with the departed), the immortalist is singularly devoted to the conquest of death itself. It is the alchemist’s trembling hands over a crucible, the cryonics patient suspended in liquid nitrogen, the digital avatar programmed to outlive its creator’s flesh—a rebellion against the oldest contract, signed in blood before birth. To be immortalist is to refuse the terms written in flesh, to demand more than dust as the final syntax of every story.