Design For Dying

Irreverent, Thought-provoking And Hilarious, Leary's Parting Shot Pioneers New Ways To Die And New Ways For The Living To Think About Death. Urging Us To Take Control Of Our Deaths (and Even To Determine When And How We Will Die). Leary Relates His Own Plan For Directed Dying, A Death We Plan And Orchestrate To Reflect Our Own Lives And Values. Introduction / Timothy Leary -- Introduction / R.u. Sirius -- 1. What Is The Meaning Of Life? -- 2. Cybernautics: Modern Alchemy -- 3. Language -- 4. Drugs -- 5. Psychology -- 6. Mutation -- 7. Dying? Throw A House Party! -- 8. One Last Taboo For The Road -- 9. Design For Approaching Death -- 10. Death Is The Ultimate Trip -- 11. Picking An Alternative Tech(nique) From The Evolutionary Menu -- 12. The Cryonics Option -- 13. Nanotechnology -- 14. The Twenty-first Century: Cyborgization And Postbiological Immortality Options -- 15. Timothy Leary's Final Escape -- Addendum: Timothy Leary's Dying Performance As Remembered By His Friends. Timothy Leary With R.u. Sirius. Parts Of This Book Are Paraphrased From Previous Writings By Timothy Leary. Not In Horowitz.