Yuval Noah Harari — Death as a Technical Problem
In the twenty-first century humans are likely
to make a serious bid for immortality.
Struggling against old age and death
will merely carry on the time-honoured fight
against famine and disease,
and manifest the supreme value of contemporary culture:
the worth of human life.
Modern science and modern culture
have an entirely different take on life and death.
They don’t think of death as a metaphysical mystery,
and they certainly don’t view death
as the source of life’s meaning.
Rather, for modern people
death is a technical problem that we can and should solve.
Yuval Noah Harari
Homo Deus