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“What truly sets this era apart — and is even unprecedented in the long history of humanity’s quest for immortality — is that, for the first time, the processes of caring for the dead and immortalization practices are fully integrated into the capitalist market,” Nowaczyk-Basinska said.

But even McCarthy seems stuck in a shot-for-shot, growl-for-growl tribute to her cartoon counterpart and Pat Carroll’s vocal immortalization of it.

The national outrage, demands for change and immortalization of his last words — “I can’t breathe” — did little to quell the anguish his family suffered.

Instead, he said, pointing out the movie’s ultimate moment of immortalization, “they used the actual tape from Lake Placid.”

Famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns didn’t bother trying to answer any of those riddles in his sweeping series “Country Music,” which traces the tradition from its recorded origins in the 1920s to the immortalization of Garth Brooks in the mid-’90s.