It does so in a relative manner depending on the extent and duration of the circulation discourse in co-existential networks. In the view of co-existentialism immortality is a social reality of discourse, as was especially true in ages steeped in the oral tradition. Click on photo for history of Van De Bogart's Immortality is understood as life after death, better, life after life. Humankind has striven for immortality from time immemorial. The earliest human traces of communal burial ritual are found in graves 60-70,000 years ago.
Graves are the living addresses of the dead.
The names of the dead are their addresses in our living language through which we can visit their presence and commerorate when alone or in discourse with one another. And the ritual observance of anniversaries bespeaks the continuing spiritual life-presence of the deceaced in the surviving community. Their constitution is our heritage, their founding acts are alive and sustain us today. Remembering means being able to survive the death of what is remembered. In this view death and immortality is very much a part of our own living and it plays an important part in the continuing life of our multigenerational social existence.