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• Death is the human physical machine failing 


• There is no law of nature that says the machine must fail 


• Tim Urban is excited for the time when the person can decide when their machine fails 


• He thinks that people will look back on death, as it happens today, as barbaric 


• The ultimate achievement is humans dying when they are read

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“I suggest that the death drive has something to do with it,” the piece reads. “Our aesthetic and behavior are certainly shaped by a sense of doom. There’s a nihilism to the way people dress and party; our heels get higher the closer we inch to death. It’s why people are smoking again, so says the New York Times.”

Many cultures make use of memento mori to remind us of our mortality, the skeletons and dying flowers often represented in art or on display in the marketplace. In past centuries, it was common to sit for portraits while holding a dead rose or to carry a watch shaped like a skull in order to signify time running out. In my practice, I notice that m

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