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What's the difference between
Bauman suggests that the knowledge and fact of mortality drives the cultural construction of the idea of immortality – ‘‘mortality is ours without asking – but immortality is something we must build ourselves. Immortality is not a mere absence
of death; it is defiance and denial of death.
and
Bauman says that the knowledge and fact of mortality drives the cultural construction of the idea of immortality – ‘‘mortality is ours without asking – but immortality is something we must build ourselves. Immortality is not a mere absence
of death; it is defiance and denial of death.
and
Bauman states that the knowledge and fact of mortality drives the cultural construction of the idea of immortality – ‘‘mortality is ours without asking – but immortality is something we must build ourselves. Immortality is not a mere absence
of death; it is defiance and denial of death.

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