I wonder if I could trouble some of you to visit my LiveJournal page and take a poll I’ve prepared about the afterlife? (http://nhpeacenik.livejournal.com/13581.html)?
Actually, I was just reminded of another possibility that I neglected to include: eternal prolongation of human life in machine form. Really! I’m not making this up: the IEEE (respectable engineering organization) just came out with a whole issue of their magazine Spectrum about this concept, which is being called The Singularity.
Also, if this kind of thing interests you, you might want to take a look at this other entry on the subject in my LiveJournal blog.