In an age of body hacking, neural implants and prosthetic augmentation, flesh is circulating. Blood flowing in my body today might be circulating in your body tomorrow. Organs extracted can be exchanged. Stem cells are replicated in-vitro and repair the body in-vivo. Skin cells can be turned into heart muscle and brain cells. Ova are now fertilized by sperm that was once frozen. The face of a donor body becomes a THIRD FACE on the recipient. Amputated limbs from a dead body can be reattached and reanimatede by a living body. Organs are extracted from dead bodies and placed into living bodies. Cadavers can be preserved forever with plastination whilst comatose bodies can be sustained indefinitely on life-support systems. Chimeras can be engineered in-vitro whilst cryogenically suspended bodies await reanimation at some imagined future. The dead, the near-dead, the un-dead and the yet to be born now exist simultaneously. This is the age of the Cadaver, the Comatose and the Chimera.
