For the purposes of this debate, a 'love marriage' is a marriage where both individuals find each other, date, and marry, absent of help from their parents. This is different from an arranged marriage, and forced marriage.

Life insurance is an insurance that a person gets that ensures their family will get an amount of money after their passing, provided that certain conditions aren't violated  (e.g. type of death, avoidability of the cause of death etc). A viatical settlement is an arrangement in which someone who is terminally ill or chronically ill sells their life insurance policy to a third party at a discount from its face value for ready cash.

Consciousness is any subjective experience (including sensory experiences, feelings, thoughts and desires). It is everything that we assume humans or other living beings experience, as opposed to objects.

For the purposes of this debate, AI development has advanced to the extent that we are now capable of enabling consciousness in AI, while all other technology remains the same as the status quo.