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A person dies twice. Once when the person biologically dies. And the final death happens when somebody on this earth remembers the person for the last time.

I was not aware that the Egyptians also believed that a person dies twice and the spirit of the person lives on as long as people kept remembering the person. Others have also expressed their views on this on perspective of mortality and the enduring legacy of individuals.

Banksy, a well-known anonymous England-based street artist, is often attributed with the following quote.I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.Ernest Hemingway also expressed a similar sentiment, stating that Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In some ways men can be immortal Irvin D. Yalom echoes my thoughts when he says the following.Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies, too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?#Death #Memory #Mortality #Legacy #Human #LivingMemory

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