But with familiarity comes dependence: when smart cards are in everyone's wallets, could a picked pocket or a misplaced handbag be equivalent to losing one's identity?
But fulfilling one's identity through their ashes is what many hope to do.
The problem is compounded by the fact that one's financial identity is so important these days, it is inevitably bound up in one's personality.
He's a former special agent at the FBI who helped solve one of the country's biggest identity theft schemes in 2002.
In 2008 the Mail on Sunday claimed to have worked out Banksy's identity from one of the photos, and named him as former public school pupil Robin Gunningham.
For the dancers themselves and the many others who participate in the spirituality of the ritual as observers, it encourages pride in and respect for one's cultural heritage and identity.
"As an architect it's not about replacing one identity but more about enriching our work, " he said.
Whether we like it or not, motherhood is now only one important aspect of women's identity, no longer the key to achieving a sense of self-fulfillment.
Obviously there are people who know who Banksy is, and "at this point he's not the only one protecting his identity, " Harrington said.
The murderer, who is already being hunted by the police, decides to steal the dead man's identity, only to find that one of his first duties as the new dominee is to bury a body that has just been discovered close to a disused quarry.
In general, self-injury is usually the result of an inability to cope in healthy ways with psychological pain related to issues of personal identity and having difficulty "finding one's place" in family and society.
Nonetheless, he is one of the party's greatest advocates of a strong separate identity and is an opponent of links with Labour.
Under ultraviolet light and a magnifying glass, any one of these thousands of dots can reveal the host vehicle's unique identity number.
Yet this important developmental phase can be dramatically twisted when that identity experimentation, however personal and private, appears permanently on one's digital record for all to see.
There will also be one place for Britain in the women's recurve and men's compound, with the identity of the archers to be confirmed over the weekend.
That's not all he is, and it would be nice if we could keep this one piece of identity in context with the whole.
At the time, one of her lawyers, Jeffrey Shapiro, said the maid had found out Mr Strauss-Kahn's identity a day after the alleged assault when a friend had called her.
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