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ENDORSEMENTS
“A brilliant, compassionate, and provocative reframing of what it means to be human in a tech-entwined world—augmented urgently calls us to protect what matters most: care, connection, and meaning.”
—Shoshana Ungerleider, Host and Producer, TED Health; Founder, End Well
“Insightful, powerful, essential. Through a dialog between personal experience, spirituality, and science, Candi Cann brings a new understanding of how technological augmentations will impact life and death. A needed text for anyone interested in the future of mankind.”
—Matthieu J. Guitton, Editor-in-Chief of Computers in Human Behavior and Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans
“Candi Cann’s book brings together three very important and often neglected intersecting topics: death, disability, and technology. Exactly the death studies scholar we need to help us understand what it means to grieve today.”
—John Troyer, author of Technologies of the Human Corpse
“Candi Cann urges reflection on how we are, in effect, cyborgs and calls for building a more inclusive, compassionate community.”
—Gil-Soo Han, author of Funeral Rites in Contemporary Korea