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Can the race with death be won? Only if life can be brought to completion by actualizing and exhausting all one’s potentials. However, if these potentials are infinitely renewable, we would do better to shoot for immortality.
Why, like a well-filled guest, not leave the feast of life?
—Lucretius
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Goodman, L.M. (1981). Self-fulfillment or Immortality. In: Death and the Creative Life. The Springer Series on Death and Suicide, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-38174-8_9
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