The Alexander Jablokov series continues.
Raw Feed (1991): “Living Will”, Alexander Jablokov, 1991.
A very poignant story built around a simple premise: what if you could encode a simulation of your personality into a piece of software and let it make the decision when a disease had changed you so much (here Alzheimers) your old, encoded self wouldn’t want to go on living and burdening others and would tell you to kill yourself?
Jablokov deals with this painful philosophical and emotional issue well and also does a nice job with the relationship between the protagonist and his wife.
Another rendition of one of Jablokov favorite themes: death.
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