Chess & Death is a ponderous theme.
To my knowledge, Ingmar Bergman's film, 'The 7th Seal', is the most famous and almost 'constitutive' reference for the theme (for modern times, at least).
There, something very interesting can be found about the Final Position Riddle.
Another famous and founding reference is Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner'.
This one is 'inspired' to an older science fiction novel by Philip Dick with the beautiful title: 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'.
'Blade Runner' features (and arguably creates) that thematic triangle between Artificial Intelligence, Chess and... Death, you were hinting at in the comment you recently wrote for Captain Roaring Pawn's article about AlphaZero:
https://www.chess.com/blog/RoaringPawn/with-alphazero-and-its-inventor-demis-hassabis-chess-is-celebrating-its-own-demise
Obviously, the point of the Triangle is that, much like Death is... appears to be destined to win all of its simultaneous games, so apparently will the Computer.
However, I am not sure this can be defined as a 'pleasing' and 'artistically' valid final solution for chess.
There was a news story lately posted on U.S.chess, toward which I was directed by a miracle. The text described an honored member of Marshal Chess Club NY passing away, spending last days of his life with the clear aim to completely immerse himself in chess, accompanied by the author of the article.
"I visited him in his hospital room almost daily after I got off from work, and, as with most hospitals, there is not much for two chess players to do, other than play chess. Soon, I started bringing in score sheets of my old games, my proudest games, and my most disappointing losses. He seemed to love combing through every single game without any condescension to me despite how blunderous some of the games were."
"Ilye was ultimately discharged from the hospital over to a hospice facility. With each of my subsequent visits to him at his hospice room it was clear his energy level and endurance was fading. I received regular voice messages from him on my cell phone asking me if I wanted to come by so he could teach me more chess. His wife, Cecilia, began contacting me more frequently to visit him to play chess, describing that he seemed to become unengaged and confused unless he was playing chess. Indeed, while in hospice, whenever I walked into his room our greetings became more and more distant. Sometimes, I wasn’t sure if he even remembered my face. But one thing was always consistent: whenever I began to unroll my chessboard and stand up the pieces – his eyes dilated, and he would quickly find strength to pull himself up. His wife told me when he is not playing chess, she was always more scared his life might slip away during this time. By now, Ilye did not care to talk much during my last few games with him. He always simply wanted to play or analyze." - https://new.uschess.org/news/im-ilye-figler-1947-2018/ Interesting motive.
A story so close to many heavy practitioners. People who know a thing or two about chess, somehow find the environment of ´64 suitable for their own death.
There was an episode entitled "The Schizoid Man" in the Star-Trek TNG series season two. The plot was describing a cybernetics scientist so in love in his field of interest, that in face of terminal illness he eventually decided to perform an attempt of the risky, pioneering procedure of transferring his mind directly into to the cybernetic net of the visiting android.
The main thing of interest in the light of what´s described is the result of your own transfer into the final position of a chess game. The ultimate (static) position if you wish, where you could reflect YOURSELF using a chess pattern.
The moment we are taking for it is NOW - the tool - a chessboard, along with the pieces - the breath is the last one - and it is a with life.
Only the first attempt is considered legit. All rest would be a disturbing fluctuation. The legal position is preferred. But not enforced. It is just more difficult.