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Cargando... Design for Dying (edición 1998)por Timothy Leary (Autor)
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"Irreverent, thought-provoking and hilarious, Leary's parting shot pioneers new ways to die and new ways for the living to think about death. Urging us to take control of our deaths (and even to determine when and how we will die). Leary relates his own plan for "directed dying," a death we plan and orchestrate to reflect our own lives and values."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Design for Dying is his last book, written as he was dying of cancer, and published posthumously. It is a wild ride, ranging through a critique of conventional Western attitudes to death, how we are trapped linguistically and ideologically in a restricted sense of self, and the various alternatives, both philosophical and technological. The latter alternatives come under the transhumanist umbrella: cryonic preservation of the corpse until science can resurrect us; the use of nanotechnology to rebuild dead cells; the digitisation of consciousness and upload to a computer; and so on. At the end, however, while he seemed to have planned to have his head cryogenically frozen, he ultimately backed out. His last words were apparently "Why not?", an utterance as enigmatic as the man himself.
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