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recent bookmarks from jmWhy America Became Numb to COVID Deaths - The Atlantic2022-03-09T12:11:43+00:00
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/03/covid-us-death-rate/626972/
jmcovid-19 ed-yong us-politics death disease medicine public-health pandemics economy capitalismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4b8143d6904b/Resurrecting Nikolai Fedorov2022-01-26T12:08:09+00:00
https://www.thespacereview.com/article/873/1
jm[Fedorov's] thought was powerfully shaped by both Orthodox Christianity and Hegelian philosophy. [...]
Rather than passively waiting for God to bring on the Millennium, being a good Christian meant participating in the building of heaven on Earth. It was the way in which he expected this to come about that really separated Fedorov from the others. In his thinking there is only one evil in the world that really counts, death. Moreover, rather than being accepted as a part of “the human condition,” part of the human mission is the technological conquest of death. This means not only achieving immortality, but restoring all the people who have ever walked the Earth to life so that they may share the gift as well, making the heaven of the afterlife a physical reality. [...]
To help bring the dead back to life, Fedorov believed that humanity would eventually launch expeditions across the cosmos to recover particles that once belonged to their ancestors in order to reconstitute their bodies. Additionally, since Earth would not be big enough to accommodate all of the people who had ever lived at once, room would be found for them on other planets.
(via Charlie Stross)
]]>via:cstross rapture nerds singularity futurism posthumanism space biotechnology death immortality life-extension future nikolai-fedorov philosophy religionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:994b049ed539/It's later than you think2019-09-04T22:10:44+00:00
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/its-later-than-you-think-j-r-storment/
jmEight years ago, during the same month, I had twin boys and co-founded Cloudability. About three months ago Cloudability was acquired. About three weeks ago we lost one of our boys.
]]>death kids horror probabilities epilepsy health life chancehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:cdecaba2ae7d/MuMufication2018-11-24T23:07:22+00:00
https://www.mumufication.com/about/
jmthe act of having a small portion of your cremated remains fired in a Brickof Mu.
MuMufied is what you will be after the act of MuMufication has been carried out.
What you get in the here and now is a Brick of Mu and a signed and stamped Certificate of MuMufication.
What you get after you die is 23 grams of yours cremated remains fired in your Brick of Mu, which will then be laid to rest on The People’s Pyramid come the following Toxteth Day of the Dead on 23rd of November.
]]>klf mu mumufication 23 eris discordianism religion death toxteth liverpool cremation pyramidshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6ed667f63519/We’re more likely to get cancer than to get married. This is a wake-up call | Ranjana Srivastava | Opinion | The Guardian2017-09-27T13:18:12+00:00
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/12/cancer-common-marriage-wake-up-call-macmillan
jmLater, in clinic, I see patients ranging from a stoical university student to a devastated father to the frail octogenarian who can’t remember the day, let alone that he has cancer – each patient an illustration of a recent Macmillan Cancer Support UK finding that it is more common for an individual to be diagnosed with cancer than to get married or have a first child. One in two people will encounter a cancer diagnosis in their lifetime, which is why the report says that, alongside marriage, parenthood, retirement and the death of a parent, cancer is now “a common life milestone”.
]]>cancer life milestones death uk health medicinehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:99cc08a79ac6/Some great factoids about Glasnevin Cemetery2016-04-27T10:09:56+00:00
https://comeheretome.com/2016/04/25/the-striking-gravediggers/
jmAnother odd thing was that people from Dublin had to be buried before noon. This was due to the fact that many funerals stopping at the gate would end up so late in the pub the gates would be closed. A number of times the sextant would open up in the morning to find a coffin or two aganst the gates. For years I thought this was made up but it turns out to be true. A friend had a copy of the cemetary bye laws from (I think) around 1908 and it was in there. I think the rule was if you lived within 7 miles of the GPO you had to be buried before 12 noon.
]]>death burial graveyards glasnevin dublin history d11https://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f6e19f68917e/Please Kill Me (Eventually) | Motherboard2015-04-16T20:41:09+00:00
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/please-kill-me-eventually
jmThere is much that the wise application of technology can do to help us ease off this mortal coil, instead of tormenting ourselves at the natural end of life in a futile, undignified and excruciating attempt to keep it somehow duct-taped on. Train more people in geriatrics, for example. Learn new ways to make life safe, healthy, fun and interesting for the old. Think like a community, a brotherhood, not like atomized competing individuals a few of whom can somehow "beat the system" of the universe. Maybe it is better to examine clearly what we are with a view to understanding and acceptance than it is to try to escape what perhaps should be our inevitable ending.
]]>death mortality cryogenics alcor geriatrics life singularity mind-uploading ray-kurzweilhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7fe7347b6b92/Germanwings flight 4U9525: what’s it like to listen to a black box recording?2015-04-07T12:49:17+00:00
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/28/germanwings-4u9525-whats-it-like-to-listen-to-black-box-recording
jmAfter every air disaster, finding the black box recorder becomes the first priority – but for the crash investigators who have to listen to the tapes of people’s final moments, the experience can be incredibly harrowing.
]]>flight disasters metrics recording germanwings air-travel black-box-recorder flight-data-recorder deathhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b2c7f4590eb1/Schneier on Security: Excess Automobile Deaths as a Result of 9/112013-09-09T22:24:12+00:00
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/excess_automobi.html
jmThe inconvenience of extra passenger screening and added costs at airports after 9/11 cause many short-haul passengers to drive to their destination instead, and, since airline travel is far safer than car travel, this has led to an increase of 500 U.S. traffic fatalities per year. Using DHS-mandated value of statistical life at $6.5 million, this equates to a loss of $3.2 billion per year, or $32 billion over the period 2002 to 2011 (Blalock et al. 2007).
]]>risk security death 9-11 politics screening dhs air-travel driving road-safetyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1b6a947b5392/Totoro Isn't All Cute. For Some, He's the God of Death.2013-08-07T22:05:04+00:00
http://kotaku.com/i-have-friends-from-the-states-here-right-now-and-i-wa-455158341
jm"Everyone, do not worry," read the Studio Ghibli statement. "There's absolutely no truth or configuration that Totoro is the God of Death or that Mei is dead in My Neighbor Totoro."
]]>totoro studio-ghibli death morbid japan film movies urban-legends alternate plothttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0e2824c454b4/IETF expedited publication of RFC6449 before J.D. Falk passed away2011-11-17T13:21:08+00:00
http://www.virusbtn.com/news/2011/11_17.xml
jmjd-falk death cancer rfcs ietf anti-spam peoplehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a7394e2b729c/zen.org Communal Weblog » Bigger Than His Body2011-07-21T00:30:52+00:00
http://www.zen.org/2011/07/20/bigger-than-his-body/
jmbrendan-kehoe awful leukemia life death riphttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:cd9ebd83aa47/alleged Jolley Gang super-ligger chokes to death on a canapé while gatecrashing2010-03-22T17:49:47+00:00
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/21/victoria-coren-jolley-gang
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