Wanna Live Forever? Become a Noun

 

 What is an Eponym?

A person after whom a discovery, invention, place etc is named or thought to be named.

There´s Mr. Zamboni, Mr. Walt, Mr. Silhoutte,Mr. Guillotine.

     

      Once upon a time, these were all real people with troubles and families and dreams.But now they live on,not exactly as people, more as nouns. Now, it is hard to say if this is a step up or a step down,´cause when you are a noun you are kind of immortal, but you are also sort of biographically missing.

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Here you can see photos of some people who became nouns.