James J. Hughes’ Ph. D is a really interesting look in to cryonics movement and how it is redefining societies definitions of death. Although it isn’t the strongest correlation to our scenario, it is a great trigger to creatively thinking about the social, environmental, political, and individual implications of the increase in technology associated with death.
This read made me think about the laws and public opinions associated with technologies being able to keep alive the essence of those who are physically deemed dead. “Technology is problematizing death. Technology has frozen conditions between life and death that had previously only been considered in mythology, fantasy or philosophy”.
Hughes (2001) really displays the future trajectory of death, through looking at the change in past times and how “human rights have become independent of race, gender and property, rights will become independent of being a breathing human being”. Have a read and let me know your thoughts.
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