"One day I was sitting in class listening to my teacher and a few students argue about how certain things can in fact be immortal. (My teacher is a Biology teacher as well, so it made for an interesting convresation.) Back to my point, they talked about how certain species of sea life can be immortal, such as different types of jellyfish. My teacher went on saying that alothough in theory those jellyfish can live forever, other things can still affect whether the creature lives or not. (Disease, famine, getting eaten.... Etc.) And I thought, "Well yeah, duh. But how do they live "forever"? What makes them live so long?" As if my teacher were reading my mind, he answered that question very simply. Cell replication. Some scientists/biologists believe that we all age because of cell mutation as we get older. (Yes. We are all in fact mutants!) But if there were a certain virus linked to DNA that would make every cell replicate perfectly, in theory we would never die.

Have you ever seen a glow fish at the pet store? In order to achieve that "glow" effect, scientists take the genetic coding from a jellyfish's DNA molecule, and copy it exactly and place that coding on a virus linked to DNA whish replaces the fish's genetic code for skin color with the jellysish's. Now, think if there was a virus linked to DNA that gets rid of all of the genetic imperfections within DNA! In my own opinion, I think that could be one of the main factors that lead to vampires living forever.

What do you all think?"

"Well yeah. It's just a theory about why vampires live as long as they do. However, I'm not quite sure why they need to drink blood. I've gotten the science part worked out, but the whole blood area is still a bit grey.

That's why nothing is ever truly immortal as well. Everything can die. But my whole point was that in a perfect world, if everyone had perfect DNA coding for cell replication, we would all live forever."

"Why they drink blood... Hmm.. Well, that might be a debatable theory, because other people have other ideas. Maybe you should ask one? You do seem to obsess over them a little. "

"Why they drink blood... Hmm.. Well, that might be a debatable theory, because other people have other ideas. Maybe you should ask one? You do seem to obsess over them a little. "

"Excellent theory, but either way people would die. With people who do not age, we would overpopulate the planet, leading us into a new dark era. People would be killing each other, or dying of starvation. Some would have psychological effects, like not wanting to live forever, so they would kill themselves. Sounds harsh, I know. But being immortal is nearly impossible. "

"That would most likely happen after a matter of years, countries going to nuclear war over food, we'd just kill each other off."