At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to pass on
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#2Lots of things matter but nothing matters without relationships.
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#3I wish more people would learn about cryonics. It's either 0 or something above zero probability.
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#4I wish more people would learn about cryonics. It's either 0 or something above zero probability.
Either that or learn to accept death.
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#5I wish more people would learn about cryonics. It's either 0 or something above zero probability.
But not giving your family closure, and an indefinite cost to the environment/them, for 0 or something above 0 success.
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#6I wish more people would learn about cryonics. It's either 0 or something above zero probability.
I have not seen a reason to think cryonics will work at all.
Even if we actually do find a way to restore frozen near-death people to life, you'd better write a heck of a pitch as to why future humans should spend resources on reviving and healing you.
Never mind all the resources being spent on keeping you properly frozen all that time.
That's all assuming the company running your freezer doesn't just go belly-up after ninety years, leaving you to thaw and rot after all that expense was dumped into keeping your now-corpse uselessly preserved for decades.
Cryonics actually plays the role so many atheists believe religion plays for the religious - comfort in the face of The End that is inevitably coming to you.
It is false hope, a tool to help you deceive yourself into thinking you can defeat death.
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#7"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things."
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
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#8The nicest bit for me was where he talked about growing old being a privilege and not to lament every grey hair and wrinkle. Puts it in perspective.
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#9I wish more people would learn about cryonics. It's either 0 or something above zero probability.
I have not seen a reason to think cryonics will work at all. Even if we actually do find a way to restore frozen near-death people to life, you'd better write a heck of a pitch as to why future humans should spend resources on reviving and healing you. Never mind all the resources being spent on keeping you properly frozen all that time. That's all assuming the company running your freezer doesn't just go belly-up af…
the argument is this: certain death vs a miniscule one in a quadrillion chance or lower. It will always tilt the other way no matter what the current scientific status quo is saying because it's possible in theory and it has happened to living organisms before just not humans. Whether it's good for environment, your siblings pocket etc is not part of the core argument.
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#10I wish more people would learn about cryonics. It's either 0 or something above zero probability.
Surely mass cryogenics is a non-starter in this day and age when we are concerned with lowering carbon emissions. All that refrigeration in perpetuity would consume so much energy, and keeping the dead frozen would erase the gains that we expect to get from the gradual decline in birthrates.