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Even as entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and billionaires invest their time, bodies and fortunes in the project of cheating death, they’re also increasingly finding solace in something else: an ancient Greek intellectual tradition that views the natural rhythms of the life cycle—which is to say, dying—as a central fact of being. Which, most would ar
... See moreJeff Bercovici • Silicon Valley's Latest Lifehack: Death
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Venture capital will seed companies that make efficient and novel use of people’s posthumous data. Just as lifestyle product development reached its zenith in the vast proliferation of colorfully branded DTC companies, we’ll soon see an outcropping of companies embedding value back into the death condition: Boutique hardware-accessory production fi... See more
Toby Shorin • Premonition
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By accepting the inevitability of mortality, society is able to refocus and contemplate humanity in a whole new light.
ZINE • 3_Trends_Vol.15: Sarah Unger: Memento Mori, Natural Awe + Four Day Week
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Looking mortality straight in the eye is no easy feat. To avoid the exercise, we choose to stay blindfolded, in the dark as to the realities of death and dying. But ignorance is not bliss, only a deeper kind of terror.
Caitlin Doughty • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
After all is said and done for our present pandemic, many thousands of people will be dead and the living will be burdened with a deep recession. Cheap solutions for end-of-life services will be sought and many will turn to the cheapest infrastructure they know of: the web. Streaming services and asynchronous rites will be used to pay the dead thei... See more
Toby Shorin • Premonition
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mortality makes it impossible to ignore the absurdity of living solely for the future.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
Of course, even in our carefully crafted realities, death still exists, even if we can’t easily make space for honest discussions about it, even if we find it really hard to sit and listen to the dying. We shield ourselves from reflecting on mortality, loss, and fear because these topics constitute the collective shadow of our busy, consumer-driven
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