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Resurrection Consent: It’s Time to Talk About Our Digital Afterlives

Your friend dies in a car crash. A company can resurrect her online avatar based on her digital footprint. Should you agree? A new study captures attitudes to the digital resurrection scenarios that will face us soon.

Arts & Humanities

Can We Cheat Death via Mind-Uploading?

Can the sum of knowledge and experience we’ve accumulated over a lifetime live on after we die? The concept of “mind-uploading” is a modern version of an age-old human dream. Transhumanism hopes to not only enhance human capacities but even transcend human limitations such as bodily death.

Arts & Humanities

„Mir geht es darum, die Würde des Menschen auch während der Autopsie zu bewahren“: Ein Gespräch mit Judith Brauneis

Judith Brauneis hat einen ungewöhnlichen Job: Als Leichenpräparatorin und Notfallseelsorgerin kümmert sie sich um Tote und ihre Angehörigen. Zum „Trauerkloß“ sei sie aber trotzdem nicht geworden. Wie ihr das gelingt – und vieles mehr – erzählt sie im Interview mit Eckhard Frick.

Arts & Humanities

Are Death and Brain Death the Same Thing?

The question of brain death is of utmost practical importance to transplantation medicine. While many anthropologists argue that death and brain death are two different things, there are good pragmatic reasons to equate the two.

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Resurrection Consent: It’s Time to Talk About Our Digital Afterlives

Can We Cheat Death via Mind-Uploading?

„Mir geht es darum, die Würde des Menschen auch während der Autopsie zu bewahren“: Ein Gespräch mit Judith Brauneis

Are Death and Brain Death the Same Thing?

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