One theme that is always present in Ghost in the Shell, but never concludes is the final evolution of man in which individuals leave their physical form and become data that lives in the net.
This is more obvious at the end of 2nd gig since that's what Kuze's final plan was if the refugees were going to be nuked, it was to transfer himself and the others to data on the net. Which is why I believe when he died he really didn't. Its always been a subject that's hid in the shadows of the series. But another GITS theme is the process of data creating life on the net as well, hince the PuppetMaster in the first movie.
In theory of the GITS world, humans could live longer in their brain cases. You have to remember that this is a world of micro-machines. Cyborgs diguest them in food made for them that help repair and maintain their bodies. Micro-machines are also used in humans to repair damaged cells and tissue.
Although the idea of Cyberbrain Sclerosis in SAC was a conditoned created by the effect of micro-machines on cyberbrains. Which ment depsite the diesese, micro-machines were used to preserve the brain in the braincase. Cyberbrain Sclerosis was a condition that some people got, sort of like how modern medication will have side effects with different type of people.
So in fact they could for a longer than normal humans. But at some point the brain would start to decay. But if they were able to transfer the ghost of a person into digital data in sense they'd be living forever.
Take episode 2 for instance. The creator of the Tank had his brain downloaded. There wasn't a brain case installed in it. So technically he could have lived forever in that tank, but Motoko's attack barriers destroyed the data. So was he immortal, was he even himself, or just data of his formal self? It's pretty deep stuff when you analyze it.
As for Motoko getting a cybernetic body as a child. I happen to believe it was on the line of Organ Donor reasons. Technically she died in that hospitol. But she returned 2 years later. I believe she was dead most of that time, but her brain was saved for Medical Research and they successfully transfered her brain into a braincase that allowed her to take on a cybernetic body. She was suppose to be one of the first to go competely cyborg, with only the brain being the last peice of their formal selves.
By the time Kuze decided too, it was well on its way to being a proven technology, also he had money from plane crash. Chances are Motoko's family also got some sort of settlement as well.
I also think both Motoko and Kuze went into milatary service cause of their experience with cybernetic bodies. Kuze's being the most experimental of the time. Afterall Motoko had a McMansion for a safe house in SAC and it proabbly pays good in that world to be in the military considering how many problems they have, despite the successful technologies they've acquired, which is also another theme of GITS.
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