Included in Publishers Weekly 's Spring 2026 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview "A thought-provoking study.offers intriguing fodder for debate." -- Publishers Weekly ENDORSEMENTS "A brilliant, compassionate, and provocative reframing of what it means to be human in a tech-entwined world-- augmented urgently calls us to protect what matters most: care, connection, and meaning." --Shoshana Ungerleider, Host and Producer, TED Health; Founder, End Well "Insightful, powerful, essential. Through a dialog between personal experience, spirituality, and science, Candi Cann brings a new understanding of how technological augmentations will impact life and death. A needed text for anyone interested in the future of mankind." --Matthieu J. Guitton, Editor-in-Chief of Computers in Human Behavior and Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans "Candi Cann's book brings together three very important and often neglected intersecting topics: death, disability, and technology.

Exactly the death studies scholar we need to help us understand what it means to grieve today." --John Troyer, author of Technologies of the Human Corpse "Candi Cann urges reflection on how we are, in effect, cyborgs and calls for building a more inclusive, compassionate community." --Gil-Soo Han, author of Funeral Rites in Contemporary Korea.