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Metazoë has been described in the past as a theoretical approach to the concept of human continuity in technology, the environment, and culture (Oikonomou, 2025), but this article approaches Metazoë from a completely different perspective. Rather than developing its systemic framework, this research treats trans-humanism as more than just an approach to human continuity. The article moves away from technical discussions about digital immortality and explores the phenomenology of continuity through a dialogue with Rilke's Duino Elegies, Pindar's "epinicians," and Levinas's concept of moral sensitivity. Such an exercise allows us to hypothesize that the re-evaluation of the biological opposition between life and death has little to do with technological power but is rather an integral part of the history of human thought itself. In this discussion, the afterlife is considered an aesthetic or lived phenomenon that neither denies nor transcends the biological limits of life but inhabits them attentively through words, memory, or presence. Finally, the article concludes that understanding the afterlife from a phenomenological or poetic perspective reveals that the phenomenon of death is in fact the horizon that silently defines life itself.
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