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What are some thoughts about whether and how human beings can achieve immortality through their words and their works?
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Immortality is living forever, and although the body won't, what the person can achieve in life very well can live on. Literature, proverbs, and art are examples of someone's ideas and feelings that live on without them, and if a name is attached to those works the creator can become immortal. William Shakespeare is immortal because his extensive popularity even in this day exists. And sometimes the ideas can be built off of and grow into a new meaning, like Freud's hypotheses and major contributions to psychology. His ideas remain, but as some are still widely accepted others are refuted, therefore showing that although he is immortal history is moving on without him. But immortality can be achieved. As long as one person knows of them after death, they will live on in at least one mind. But if society knows of them, if they are in history books, museums...
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