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Because Fate told her that he would have a short, glorious life and she wanted to make him immortal so that he would have a long life. Alas this did not happen as the heel that she held him by when she dipped him in the river Styx, was not made immortal and that's how he died - shot in the heel with an arrow by Paris.

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Q: Why did Achilles mother want to make him immortal?
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