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The National Science Foundation has awarded a half-million-dollar grant to the universities of Central Florida at Orlando and Illinois at Chicago to explore how researchers might use artificial intelligence, archiving, and computer imaging to create convincing, digital versions of real people, a possible first step toward virtual immortality.
While some sites, including Facebook and X (formerly Twitter), have policies related to death, others remain dormant until deleted due to inactivity or transferred to family or friends. The FADA (Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act) was set in place to make it possible to transfer digital possessions legally. [1]
For life has no terrors for him who has thoroughly understood that there are no terrors for him in ceasing to live. Foolish, therefore, is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will pain when it comes, but because it pains in the prospect. Whatever causes no annoyance when it is present causes only a groundless pain in the ...
A computer technician accused in the gruesome murder of two Coral Gables co-workers more than a decade ago took an unexpected guilty plea Friday — short-circuiting what was expected to be a ...
As the Death Penalty Information Center observes, America’s death penalty is now “defined by two competing forces: the continuing long-term erosion of capital punishment across most of the ...
The death row phenomenon is the emotional distress felt by prisoners on death row.Concerns about the ethics of inflicting this distress upon prisoners have led to some legal concerns about the constitutionality of the death penalty in the United States and other countries.
The death penalty, with its irreversible and final nature, stands in stark contrast to the principles of mercy, redemption, and second chances that underpin the pro-life ethos.
The Fifth Amendment was drafted with language implying a possible use of the death penalty, requiring a grand jury indictment for "capital crime" and a due process of law for deprivation of "life" by the government. [29] The Fourteenth Amendment adopted in 1868 also requires a due process of law for deprivation of life by any states. [30]