Death of the EmperorLater in his life, Qin Shi Huang feared death and desperately sought the fabled elixir of life, which would supposedly allow him to live forever. He was obsessed with acquiring immortality and fell prey to many who offered him supposed elixirs. He visited Zhifu Island three times in order to achieve immortality.
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His QuestQIn's obsession with becoming immortal led him to taking drugs- mercury filled tablets (elixir of life)- that of coarse we now know, mercury is very poisonous.
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The Journey to find Elixir of LifeThis Journey was led by a court physician to try and find the island were the immortals live. The physician returned only to say that the path was blocked by big scary fish. So the emperor himself decided to go and ward off any fish that tried to stand in his men's way.
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The Emperors Last JourneyOn his journey to scare off the fish, around 5 years after he started to take the mercury, the mercury had nearly all of Qin's brain on its side. Because of this the emperor was going mad!
On the way back from Qin's unsuccessful Journey, he passed away on the way back. His 2 closest officials decided not to spread the word so that they would have an opportunity to plan a overthrow of the next emperor in line! |
Question- Would you like to become immortal (never die)?
Follow up- If yes, why? If no, why not? If maybe, what makes you not sure?
Follow up- If yes, why? If no, why not? If maybe, what makes you not sure?