While computers get smarter, the brain-IT link will also get better, so you'll use external IT more, until most of your mind is outside your brain.
When your body dies, you'll only lose the bits still based in the brain. Most of your mind will carry on.
You'll go to your funeral, buy an android body and carry on. Death won't be a career problem.
If you don't want to use an android, maybe you'll link into your friends' bodies and share them, just as students hang out on friends' sofas.