Natashia Vita-More: Well, the transformative human enhancement suggests that design
issues will concern human biology as an unfixed species
that link the bio-robo-info-nano-cogno technologies and sciences,
challenging human rights and changing them, and looking at morphological
freedom and looking at identity and personhood.
And um, the issue of duplicitive identity existing in multiple environments.
So, again, what is life? What are my rights? Who am I? What am I?
And where am I?
Here we need to look at death. And in my research
I consider death to be an interesting
thing but I'm opposed to it. I want it to go away, of course, because I'm interested
in extending personal existence. But that does not mean that death has to go away completely.
The more I cogitate over it, the more I reaserach, I realise
we can have partial death. We can have like death as a
vacation. We could have...
we could forstall it. We could have scenarios about it. Instead of death being
compulsory, it could be set aside until a time when it was
appropriate. So let me just read this here, and this is from my research: 
For example, a person might experience
biological death but continue immediately or sequentially in another
biological form. This might be looked at as partial
or semi-death but not as irreversible death. It also relates to an optional
and temporary death. One could decide to cease to exist in one platform
for a period of time, but continue in a different medium, or cease to exist in any
platform until a later day. Rather than forstalling death,
a possible future scenario might be that death not be compulsory
but a possible option, thereby leaving the act of death as a choice.
Optional death might be used as a type of retirement from one life to another,
a mode of life.  More specifically, a person existing in a synthetic simulation
might decide this environment no longer is satisfactory and
determine to cease to exist
in a synthetic form
and transfer his existence into a semi-biological material body.
Another example might be where a person hosting multiple identities,
each a self contained aspect of the person,
experiences voluntary or involuntary cessation of existence
but this does not terminate the entirety of the person. Alternative death
might be considered a means to drop-out of life for a period of time
and cease to exist indefinitly but not in finality or irrevocably.
Persons who exits outside the boundaries
of biological body will most likely desire to be considered living beings
with certain rights. Therefor it is apt to consider post-biological
definitions of death concerning personhood. If medical science
and technology develops the means to remediate brain-dead patients,
including the brain stem and the neocortex, and cognitive engineering
technologies develop the means to transfer memory and thought to all
alternative platforms for hosting life, it is reasonable to speculate
that the definition of death will require considerable attention in the coming
years, the options for human enhancement
the cyborg-transhuman-posthuman upload.
I suggest the future human may be considered a transfomative stage reflecting
regenative bodies and identities.
The future human does include elements of cyborg and
disembodiment and posthuman
condition; however its nature or disposition emphasises
regenative existence as a primary aim and the
construction of its mass, or body, as a secondary
aim. In light of this, its identity is not differentiated by
association with a metal cyborg or disembodied human, but a
synthetic being comrpring a fluid continutiy of seld over time.
