Immortality may be defined as “a perpetual state of life.” The adult characters in Yonnondio are all striving to leave a legacy that they can be proud of. They want to achieve immortality by leaving something of themselves behind. This idea is clearly represented when Old Man Caldwell is on his deathbed and reaches out to Mazie. As he lay dying, he desperately searches the annals of his mind for something tangible that he is leaving behind. Unforturnately, he concludes: “I brought them nothing. To die, how bitter when nothing was done with my life.”
The sentiment is represented by Exciter in their song No Life No Future. Exciter’s lyrics articulate this universal desire to be remembered.“Dying ain't much, much of a life
When no one remembers or cares
Scratched from a list erased from time
No one would know you were there”
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