Well cryonics is becoming more feasible fast and with the latest developments in nanomedicine and aging intervention, it is dawning on people that we may just achieve non-ageing bodies some day, and even like 100-150 years from now
Is it surprising that people think "I dont want to miss that by maybe 1-2 generations, that sucks"?
I`ve signed up for cryonics after much consideration and research. As you know, I am tormented by a fear of death, but I am not 100% convinced there is no afterlife. 95% convinced maybe. But if there is an afterlife - hope hope hope - then I do not think it will change for me if I live longer. Why? Humanity will never become immortal. Even if I will be woken up in 100 years, restored to a youthful condition and hopefully with my mind mostly intact, I can still be swallowed in an earthquake, go up in flames, be pulverized by a bomb or airplane crash....lost of lovely possibilities to dwell on. So, the afterlife will be there for me, just a bit later. Even if I live 10.000 years - whats this in the face of eternity?
But I have always been a very curious and eager person and I SO would love to see the future. Is it not conceivable that God - should she exist - has given us these great and ever-searching brains so we can, some day, live in a world where we can manufacture the basic needs for everyone without effort and live in non-ageing bodies so we are spared the pain of decay? Also, people would become much more conscious towards preserving the earth - after all, they would be there to live on it
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All in all, I decided to sign up and hope the time-ship will transport me to a future with all new, exciting possibilities. And then, when I die one day (again), I will hopefully find out you all have been right and there is even more to explore! How wonderful that would be.
Oh, and cryonicists arent all selfish narcissist, one for example has been lost to pulverisation helping others during 9/11.
And if oblivion is true..well, then at least I cheated the cold darkness out of its prey for a bit more.