Collectivism erases actual death by treating everyone as interchangeable

Evidence

A collectivist conception of man does not concede a valid existence to such sentiments as love, tenderness, and friendship; the abstract identity of individuals merely authorizes a comradeship between them by means of which each one is likened to each of the others. In marching, in choral singing, in common work and struggle, all the others appear as the same; nobody ever dies. On the contrary, if individuals recognize themselves in their differences, individual relations are established among them, and each one becomes irreplaceable for a few others. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 107

Categorization

• XREF: ‘Nobody ever dies’ under collectivism resonates with Zamyatin’s We, where uniform citizens in marching and choral singing erase individual death. — connects to: Appearances are immortal while meaning is mortal and dispensable — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 542; Society’s interchangeability of persons has domesticated death. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from…, 255
• BMF: The collective-image of interchangeable comrades where ‘nobody ever dies’ mirrors the uniform One-State citizens of Zamyatin’s We — the same erasure of irreplaceable individuals by abstract identity.