Do we write because we fear death?

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“My life, I feel, will not be lived until there are books and stories which relive it perpetually in time.” — Sylvia Plath

Do you write to re-live your life perpetually in time, like Sylvia Plath wanted to do?

Or do you write to live as many lives as you possibly can while you still have breath in your lungs? To try and beat your own mortal clock, in a wa…