ABSTRACT
Whereas Jean-Paul Sartre claims that death is not the primary source of meaning-generating limitations in ordinary human life, which suggests that immortal humans need not be so different from us mere mortals, Simone de Beauvoir briefly counters, in The Second Sex, that immortals would in fact no longer be human at all. In order to see why she breaks with Sartre on this point, this chapter will consider her novel All Men Are Mortal, which describes the adventures and disenchantment of a nearly 700-year-old individual. This discussion situates Beauvoir directly in the middle of the contemporary analytic debate about the desirability of immortality.
