Can you imagine swapping your body for a virtual version? This
technology-based look at the afterlife chronicles America's
fascination with death and reveals how digital immortality may
become a reality. The Internet has reinvented the paradigm of life
and death: social media enables a discourse with loved ones long
after their deaths, while gaming sites provide opportunities for
multiple lives and life forms. In this thought-provoking work,
author Kevin O'Neill examines America's concept of afterlife—as
imagined in cyberspace—and considers how technologies designed to
emulate immortality present serious challenges to our ideas about
human identity and to our religious beliefs about heaven and hell.
The first part of the work—covering the period between 1840 and
1860—addresses post-mortem photography, cemetery design, and
spiritualism. The second section discusses Internet afterlife,
including online memorials and cemeteries; social media legacy
pages; and sites that curate passwords, bequests, and final
requests. The work concludes with chapters on the transhumanist
movement, the philosophical and religious debates about Internet
immortality, and the study of technologies attempting to extend
life long after the human form ceases.
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