#23 — Death, stigma, autonomy, and abstraction

About death, fear of dying, Irvin D. Yalom’s “Love’s Executioner”, Christopher Hitchens’ “Mortality”, taking control of death, religion and the afterlife, atheism, consciousness, the transhumanism of Nick Bostrom and Anders Sandberg, the first human head transplantation, Switzerland’s assisted suicide programmes, stigma, the ethics of taking your own life, autonomy, the antinatalism of David Benatar, negative utilitarianism, life inside a thought experiment, Jordan Peterson & Stephen Fry, and the pitfalls of abstraction.  Maja Malmcrona (@majamalmcrona) is an artist from Sweden. T is a software tester from the United Kingdom. They both live in Zürich, Switzerland. Recorded in Zürich on July 17, 2021. http://majamalmcrona.com http://instagram.com/majamalmcrona