I'm a fan of Martine Rothblatt, who invented SirusXM satellite radio, back when she was Martin Rothblatt. One of the great minds of our time.

Her daughter had some kind of blood disease that previously had a 100% mortality rate [pulmonary arterial hypertension], so she sold off her ownership of satellite radio, started a bio-technology company [United Therapeutics Corporation], and cured her daughter's deadly disease.

She talks about things like downloading consciousness, and I could listen to discussions about this all day. I'd like to know more about it. From my relatively uneducated perspective, it seems that a downloaded consciousness would be nice, but it's a copy, and I feel that the original me would still have to die.

No doubt, it's intriguing, and it reminds me of something I don't like about death: that I will miss out on what is next.