Future of death

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Back-up brains: The era of digital immortality
BBC
How do you want to be remembered? As Simon Parkin discovers, we may eventually be able to preserve our entire minds for generations to come – would you?
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Government decriminalizes attempt to commit suicide, removes section 309
The Times of India
India News: The government has decided to decriminalize "attempt to suicide" by deleting Section 309 of the Indian Penal Code from the statute book.
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Doing more for patients often does no good
The New York Times
When options are available, it’s tempting to go for the maximum treatment. But that doesn’t necessarily lead to better outcomes.
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Death, redesigned
The California Sunday Magazine
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The science of near-death experiences
The Atlantic
Empirically investigating brushes with the afterlife
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A new kind of funeral director
The Long and Short
Far away from the typical, austere funeral formalities, meet the people trying to rethink how we mark our deaths
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New company claims they'll be able to resurrect the dead by 2045
Express
ENTREPRENEUR Josh Bocanegra says his new company Humai area aiming to bring the dead back to life
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Causes of death
Flowing Data
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An exhibit in Illinois allows visitors to talk with holograms of 13 Holocaust survivors
Smithsonian
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, Illinois, opened the new Survivor Stories Experience this fall
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Google is training machines to predict when a patient will die
The Straits Times
SAN FRANCISCO (BLOOMBERG) - A woman with late-stage breast cancer came to a city hospital, fluids already flooding her lungs. She saw two doctors and got a radiology scan. The hospital's computers read her vital signs and estimated a 9.3 per cent chance she would die during her stay.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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The death of death
Vice
RAADfest is the go-to science conference for immortalists of all stripes.
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No expensive caskets. No toxic chemicals. 'Green burials' growing in popularity in Connecticut
Hartford Courant
Anti-pollution, pro-environment green burials are increasingly popular in Connecticut, and one non-profit group wants to create a new green cemetery in this state.
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Meet the digital embalmers helping celebrities, brands and individuals plan their digital afterlives
Forbes
The new keepers of our afterlives are working with Hollywood heavyweights, top brands, and regular individuals to define digital legacy technology and safeguard digital presence in the future.
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The deathcare industry was never ready for a pandemic
Vice
The coronavirus is proving what epidemiologists have always known.
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Funerals might be different forever after the pandemic
Vice
Amid a pandemic, loved ones of the dead—and those who handle their bodies—are reimagining how to care for those who pass away.
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Welcome to life: the singularity, ruined by lawyers
Tom Scott
http://tomscott.com - Or: what you see when you die.If you liked this, you may also enjoy two novels that provided inspiration for it: Jim Munroe's Everyone ...
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Why funerals are a total ripoff | Adam ruins everything
ColleHumor
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Digital death
Isaac Arthur
It is often thought that if we cure aging or find out how to upload a human mind that humans will be immortal. Today we will examine that notion and see how ...
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Death becomes him
Medium
I was in the crematory with two fresh deliveries when my host, a mortician named Caleb Wilde, opened the bag containing one of the bodies and began to massage its chest. The body was the color of an…
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Sanctification
Futurism
An old man spends his last day thinking about his life.
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Human lifespan could soon pass 100 years thanks to medical tech, says bofA
CNBC
One of the biggest investment opportunities over the next decade will be in companies working to delay human death, Bank of America says.