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You know you will die of an incurable disease withing three months. Would you allow yourself to be frozen within the week if you knew it would give you a modest chance of being revived in 1,000 years and living a greatly extended life?
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HELL NO. I would do all the dumb shit I have always wanted to do. While I was doing these things, I would be yelling to the Grim Reaper, "Come and get you son of a bitch".
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Why within the week? If I was able to live normally for 3 months I wouldn't, if I was going to be bedridden and deteriorate until I died then sure, why not?
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like futurama? not ony would people looks completly different, but i wouldnt be able to understand the vernacular. it would be like sheep in the big city. i dont think so if its for 1000 years, maybe 10.
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Just to far out to get a read on the quality of that "greatly extended" life 1000 years from now. I'll take my chances with the next three months then call it a life.
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I would opt out on the CRYO thing. Since this condition is brought on by a disease, you would eventually be bedridden (near the end at least). So, I'd live my remaining active days just wide open, balls out!! No rules! Anything goes. Whatta they gonna do lock me up?? (O.K., so you save the really crazy shit for later)
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quote:Originally posted by Cain: who would want to start all over and miss what time they had left with their family.
I would.
If I know I'm dying anytime within the next three months, that means that I can die as early as tomorrow. 24 hours is not enough time to live out everything you ever wanted to do in life. Three months allows for more activities to take place, but in the back of your mind, you know that you will die any day now. I mean, we will all die but it is better if we not know when that will happen. That thought will dominate your way of thinking regardless of what you do. It will not be fun. I want to do all the fun things without having to think about death constantly.
I'll tell friends and family that I'm going into the future by freezing myself and they will say their goodbyes, crying and all.
Living life not *knowing* that you will die in a couple of days makes every activity pain and stress free.
I'll wake up and thank the doctors for saving my life. Everyone dreads the idea of being told that you have three months to live. Why not take advantage of the methods available and live in the updated lifestyle?
I think what's making people stay away from this procedure is that 1,000 years a very, very, very long time from now. They are not that patient. I think if option was that you would be frozen for seven years, people would it a second thought and agree to it.
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Assuming that cryogenics can be successful (and there is no genuine evidence of which I'm aware to support it), what makes you think that they would want to have you? You would burden their medical system, you would have to be educated (to catch you up - if Excell is difficult to manage, how will you even remotely relate to a "user friendly" interface of the future? - your language is 1,000 years out of date, how will you communicate?).
What purpose would it serve for them to revive you and heal you? I'm no Science Fiction writer but it doesn't take much thought to guess that future generations won't need a fossil to bounce babies on his knee. You would, at best, be an exhibit at some sort of museum. More likely, having invested this much effort and skill, they need some kind of labor from you that only a human (one about which they don't give a rat's ass) can do.
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