this cannot be. As in other facets of our lives, some contingent features are significant, we assume, to who we are. They are not essential to our personal identity, but they are important nonetheless. Like our vocations (as firefighters, chaplains, professors, etc.) or the choices we have made in our past, our bodies are important. Our bodies are even more important in that they are fundamental to so much that we participate in in this life. Our bodies are a fundamental part of our narrative identity.