Retrospectively | Cheating Death, or a Slippery Slope of Sentience?

Plausibly, since the dawn of humanity, humans have endeavored to find means of cheating death, as done through religious constructions of life after death to resorting to means of cryogenics in our own contemporary time.

To one of the points that we as a class lingered upon during today's seminar, the afterlife of the virtual imprint that we indelibly make every day upon the permanent archive that is the Internet, I remembered this recent episode of CNNGo that provides a comprehensive—and controversial—answer to the question of technological life after death. If your interest has been piqued, or you are desperately in need of an audiovisual study break (practical procrastination, anyone?), please check out the full episode, entitled "Death, IRL" of the CNNGo subseries, Mostly Human, embedded immediately below. (Don't worry, it's only ~20 minutes long.)

What do you think?