A
technology has been created that allows individuals to upload their
consciousness to an online reality after their death. The virtual afterlife is
an idyllic version of reality with different levels of luxury depending on
which tier you paid for. Uploaded people can contact people in the real world,
feel all sensations, and buy luxury items and amenities with wealth they made
before their deaths or money given to them from living donors (friends, family,
etc). There exists no other similar technology: a person must choose between
this technology or a natural death.