What does "live on" mean?

Be financially supported by, subsist on, as in His pension is too small to live on. [Mid-1600s]
Continue to survive, especially unexpectedly, as in They thought the cancer would kill her, but Lucy lived on for another twenty years.
Remain in human memory, as in This book will live on long after the author's death.

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