Do you think animals qualify as being conscious, sentient beings? We often talk about how death is a void of nothing, but what about spending the rest of your life as an animal? It would be unthinkable to live without things like language or normal cognition, and to me in a way tantamount to death. I think this shows human consciousness is only self-affirming and through technology, humans, the most complex and consciously developed creatures as of the present due to evolution, will use technology to develop machines that will help them simulate reality through a computer to live their life virtually however they want to, in a sense becoming God. Consciousness has developed greatly, from lifeless matter to single-celled organisms, to animals to humans, reaching a higher and higher level each time until humans learn to manipulate their enviorment to such an extent to redefine reality.
Also, do you think it is our moral obligation to resurrect the dead who were to unfortunate by accident of birth to reach our tech utopia? This could be done by copying their brain states and putting them into a human body to achieve an infinite afterlife.
We at the Immortality Institute should make an oath to each other to ressurect each other so that in case we die we won't miss out on the opportunity to live forever in our utopia. Our children will carry on the cause, and if not them our children's children, so that this utopia is inevitable because it is the only cause that ultimately defines their lives and ours. If so, eternal life is our destiny