cyberdeath en · NOUN
Etymology
From cyber- + death.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Virtual death taking place in cyberspace.
In a future civilization from which death has been eliminated, future clones might, perhaps, afford themselves the luxury of death, and become mortals once again in simulated form (cyberdeath).
2001, Jean Baudrillard, Chris Turner, Impossible exchange:And I was there when they returned to us — either from a long journey or beyond cyberdeath.
2007, Jonathan Paul Marshall, Living on Cybermind:That is why a virtual persona can be violated and why there is a relation between cyberdeath and psychic annihilation […]
1998, Margaret Morse, Virtualities: television, media art, and cyberculture:She and Henri had some kind of cyberdeath pact. If one didn't come back, the other one wouldn't. It was all very perverse, and confused.
2003, Richard Bliss, Lighthouse Rockets:Cyberdeath: Through the Internet, you can watch a funeral live via Webcam, get your ashes scattered in space, contact a mortician, order a casket […]
2001, Katherine M Ramsland, Cemetery Stories:[…] much of the electronic correspondence is gibberish that may circle the world for months at a time before a fitting cyberdeath arrives.
2004, Peter Revere, The Real 911: Truth and Testimony: