cyberdeath
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editcyberdeath (uncountable)
- Virtual death taking place in cyberspace.
- 1998, Margaret Morse, Virtualities: television, media art, and cyberculture:
- That is why a virtual persona can be violated and why there is a relation between cyberdeath and psychic annihilation […]
- 2001, Jean Baudrillard, Chris Turner, Impossible exchange:
- In a future civilization from which death has been eliminated, future clones might, perhaps, afford themselves the luxury of death, and become mortals once again in simulated form (cyberdeath).
- 2001, Katherine M Ramsland, Cemetery Stories:
- Cyberdeath: Through the Internet, you can watch a funeral live via Webcam, get your ashes scattered in space, contact a mortician, order a casket […]
- 2003, Richard Bliss, Lighthouse Rockets:
- She and Henri had some kind of cyberdeath pact. If one didn't come back, the other one wouldn't. It was all very perverse, and confused.
- 2004, Peter Revere, The Real 911: Truth and Testimony:
- […] much of the electronic correspondence is gibberish that may circle the world for months at a time before a fitting cyberdeath arrives.
- 2007, Jonathan Paul Marshall, Living on Cybermind:
- And I was there when they returned to us — either from a long journey or beyond cyberdeath.