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In this concluding chapter, I finalise the debate regarding the manner in which society has viewed itself in a superior manner in regards to life and death. Using Deleuze’s philosophy , I argue how robots, in their future form, can be seen as what Deleuze calls a ‘people-to-come’, ushering in a new understanding a ways of being and ways of dying that do not abide by or conform to a rigid, biological constraint. I also argue how consciousness does not necessarily hold the same importance it once did in the economy of life, while death can be seen more as a moral phenomenon, rather than an intrinsically biological one.
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Lyons, S. (2018). Conclusion: Death Beyond Biology. In: Death and the Machine. Palgrave Pivot, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0335-7_5
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