The between of co-existence is our primary reality and language is equiprimordial with consciousness. We talk to ourselves, we process reality in a private mode shaped by language. This private experience has to be articulated to others to achieve interpersonal and thus irrevocable social and moral reality. Once communicated, the person's experience in principle can live on in the memory and discourse of the listeners and, as such, it can survive the death of the speaker or writer. Relationships may attain immortality in and through co-existence.
Language can accomplish immortality.
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.