Envisioning postmortal futures: six archetypes on future societal approaches to seeking immortality.
Death is a core feature of the human experience and a main driver of civilisational endeavours. Attempts to transcend it have propelled the emergence of a postmortal society in the twenty-first century, where people have looked into the various possibilities to achieve some form of immortality. Whil...
| Publicado en: | Mortality Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 18 - 37 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb2024
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