The article discusses how the 1992 horror-comedy Death Becomes Her raises a terrifying and unanswerable question about the fate of its immortal characters, Madeline and Helen. After consuming a magic elixir that grants eternal life but leaves them indestructible even after severe bodily harm, the reviewer ponders whether cremation would offer them an escape from their conscious, eternal nightmare. The core of the terrifying question is whether cremation would grant them peace by destroying their consciousness, or if it would merely doom them to an even worse existence as conscious specks of ash, unable to act. The unanswerable nature of this dilemma is what the article argues makes the film genuinely scary, even three decades later.

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