Would we value life if there was no death? Doesn't death give life meaning? There are some who will say that life has no meaning because we die. Does something have to last forever to be meaningful? We value our relationships with people even though those relationships may end. Life must be good for its own sake. Life as actively lived with purpose.
In the context of the posthuman drive to extend our lives through cybernetics and biomedicine, I have to agree with Bruce Sterling, who wrote:
Better to burn in a rush than live 200 years as a mechanistic wirehead. (Schizmatrix, 1985)
Better to burn in a rush than live 200 years as a mechanistic wirehead. (Schizmatrix, 1985)
Paralysed man's right to die:
Max More's take on the posthuman:
Julie Clarke (2009). The Paradox of the Posthuman: Science Fiction/Techno-Horror Films and Visual Media, VDM Verlag, Germany.
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