Simulated doubles are purged of death and appear more alive than the original

Evidence

Everywhere we live in a universe strangely similar to the original - things are doubled by their own scenario. But this doubling does not signify, as it did traditionally, the imminence of their death - they are already purged of their death, and better than when they were alive; more cheerful, more authentic, in the light of their model, like the faces in funeral homes. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 46

Categorization

• DEFINE: The definitive statement of the third-order simulacrum: the copy has absorbed and outlived the original’s mortality.
• XREF: connects to: The doppelganger horror runs on the double doing better than the original — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 188

Broader Connections

• The doppelganger horror runs on the double doing better than the original #corroborates (0.80) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 188