Observed arrival · 2026-10-25
Still Matter’s three speculative futures for human remains
A speculative stewardship project compares long-duration containment, deep-space departure, and solar delivery for human remains.
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- Readers exploring speculative ethics of human remains
- Worth noticing
- The containment option calls 1,000 years an illustrative design target and says its service life is not validated.
Field notes
The argument begins with a speculative premise that consciousness could depend on matter being reused, alongside the stated view that wild lives may contain more suffering than enjoyment. The site compares whole-body and brain-only scopes across containment, outbound spacecraft, and solar delivery, and links to NASA, spacecraft, and canister-engineering references. Its figures are explicitly illustrative: the containment page gives a 1,000-year target while noting that service life has not been validated.
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