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Death and Beyond: Essential Readings on Afterlife Beliefs and Immortality Concepts

 I'm in the gardens this week and next, so there will be short posts. For today, mostly just some interesting (if not creepy) links:  A strangely unsettling piece about Digital Afterlife .  And Neal Stephenson's take on what that might look like here - if we care.  And since we've talked before about how biomechanical death is a process, here is a link to a read that claims it may be reversible.  It also looks like there is actually a cirriculum (officially) devoted to the study of death, from an academic institution - Here .  Also an interesting and touching tale (though a bit dated perhaps) about someone who wanted to give their dying loved on artificial immortality with AI. And equally interesting,  here's an article about a study showing that not as many adults as assumed would actually want immortality if given the opportunity for it.   I'll post more relevant links next week - sorry, no deep thoughts for a bit, but after I've worked t...

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