A quote from Ralph McInerny at The Catholic Thing blog, 21 July 2008

A colleague of mine begins his course in medical ethics by asking his students if a cure for death will eventually be found. Most of them think so. Good Catholic students, all of them, envisaging a roll back of Original Sin. There will no longer be mortal illnesses; mortality itself is an illness and it is curable. Meanwhile, in logic classes, these same students will rattle off the familiar syllogism: All men are mortal, Socrates is a man, therefore Socrates is mortal. Perhaps this is thought to be an historical observation about ancient Athens.