Theme
Mortality and the fear of death
The human confrontation with finitude, the desire to transcend, deny, or make meaning of death.
Mortality and the fear of death in fiction: 3 works
It examines how endless life drains meaning from existence.
The survivors long for the death AM denies them, making mortality a mercy withheld.
The 'half-life' preservation of the dead blurs the boundary between living and gone.