I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Don't do things to not die, do things to enjoy living. The by-product may be not dying.
Don't try to help people to 'not die', help them to enjoy life!
We just did an awesome job of not dying.
I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.
You don't have to die in order to make a living!
Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying.