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Immortal: How the Fear of Death Drives Us and What We Can Do About It is unavailable, but you can change that!

Is There Life After Death?   For many, death is terrifying. We try to live as long as possible while hoping that science will soon find a way to allow us to live, if not forever, then at least a very long time.   Whether we deny our mortality though literal or symbolic immortality or try to turn death into something benign, our attempts fail us. But what if the real solution is not in denying...

Then you have to maintain your symbolic immortality, and that’s hard to do! As Bauman puts it, “Success is always an ‘until further notice’ success; it is never final. It must be repeated over and over again. The effort can ever grind to a halt.”120 Journalist Maureen Orth interviewed Madonna in 1992 and “found a tough, middle-class, ex-Catholic girl who craved to be really, really bad so that she could be noticed even more. I also found a woman who represents, perhaps more than anyone else, one