Cryonics–A futile desire for everlasting life.

Finished 6-2-06
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“Believing cryonics could reanimate somebody who has been frozen is like believing you can turn hamburger back into a cow.”

-Arthur Rowe

Imagine opening your eyes one day, feeling the same feeling that occurs when you go to sleep and wake up as your clock alarm goes off, seemingly minutes later. But imagine that instead of waking from sleep, you’ve woken from death centuries after the lifetime you knew, your pains healed, your diseases cured.

But imagine also another scenario, this one far different. Once awake, you are nothing but a vegetable. Your mind either does not exist inside your body, you are in an irreversible coma, or you are in intense pain. Perhaps you are aware that you are alive, but you cannot move. You try to open your eyes but find that it’s impossible, and attempt to touch your eyelids with your fingers, but your arms won’t lift. In fact, you cannot even feel your arms, you are completely numb to physical feelings, you are paralyzed and there’s nothing you can do