just over here on this thursday afternoon imagining a future where people have pay to stay dead https://twitter.com/bigthink/status/1293573063305551872

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[coked to the gills, sweat pouring down my shaved head and soaking my black turtleneck, I stride onto the stage at Aspen TEDFest]

Walter Benjamin once said that, in the future, even the dead would not be safe. What he failed to appreciate was that this would be ... awesome