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Re:Alain de Botton on existential maturity and what emotiona... by rigelbm on Thursday July 07, 2022 @08:04AM (#32012920)
That sounds a lot like a "immortality project", as described by Becker in The Denial of Death [1].

[1] https://ernestbecker.org/about-becker/beckers-synthesis/#:~:....

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Re:Alain de Botton on existential maturity and what emotiona... by throwawaygal7 on Thursday July 07, 2022 @08:37AM (#32013252)
'Immortality project' or just, a traditional way of seeing oneself as being a part of a 'line' or stream of life.
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