Usage of repeated「として」 How would you translate the below sentence? I understand ~can be translated roughly as "As~", but I'm not sure if anything changes when they are chained? Also, does have any unique meaning, or is it just "living artist." My current guess is something along the lines of "I want to die as an artist and as a living artist".

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> I want to live as an artist and die as an artist.

(I added a comma after to help you parse the sentence correctly)

Nothing surprising happens when there are two in a sentence. The first modifies ("live as an artist"), and the second modifies () ("die as an artist"). is the masu-stem of , and this form can connect two clauses like the te-form. See: versus combining-form for joining clauses