ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book emphasises how grief and mourning will be transformed in the context of a transhumanist and posthuman society. Transhumanists, futurists and millionaires have either subconsciously or consciously neglected to examine what human enhancement in transhumanist terms means. Transhumanism and posthuman societies allude to many things, but one seems certain – stagnation. The aim was to step beyond that and truly allow thanatological queries to be viewed through the lens of transhumanist perspectives. Posthumanity, in some ways, appears to contradict human ambition of being free from limitations, albeit aiming towards that. ‘The dream of some kind of life without end is a universal feature of human experience, common to all cultures across time and place- and still today driving us on toward new achievements that surpass even the pyramids’.
