As far as I'm concerned, I believe your prediction is accurate, as we have already opened the door to our own demise. Of course Scranton does not intend to sit down and die but to delay our death. Even his use of “humanistic and philosophical questions… “What does it mean to live?”” really digs into the reader's spine. Scranton has thoughtfully placed its audience in an environment beyond what they can imagine, forcing them to question their own religious views and what is in store for them. I believe that, to avoid turning his work into a depressing fortune-telling, he should have mentioned how steps can be taken to ease one's eyesight instead of waiting for disaster. Although I question his last line “If we want to live in the Anthropoece, we must first learn to die”. Because it seems like he's trying to say that there can be hope but we have to deal with our death, but it contradicts what I mentioned above how most people simply won't accept death, be it through ignorance or religion. So the fact that he simply ends the article with a "cool" ending baffles me