Eternal life story ideas? (R.E.)?

What does that dragon fly story really have to do with eternal life? Since it doesn't have to do with animals, why not tell the story of genes. Genes truly are immortal, in a sense. Even today you have copies of the genes that your ancestors had millions of years ago. Since these exact copies make exact copies, they will live for as long as life exists, sort of like if you could live forever by cloning yourself over and over again for eternity. That's what genes do.