Comments on: How YOU Can Cheat Death

By: links for 2007-08-30 | Samurai Soapbox

links for 2007-08-30 | Samurai Soapbox — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:22:29 +0000

[...] How YOU Can Cheat Death [...]

By: Jerad Kaliher

Jerad Kaliher — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:23:08 +0000

@Patricia, I couldn’t agree more. It’s quotes like these that make me want to believe in the idea of scientific possibility:

“There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the Moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the Earth’s gravity.”

— Dr. Forest Ray Moulton, University of Chicago astronomer, 1932.

By: Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker

Patricia - Spiritual Journey Of A Lightworker — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:57:50 +0000

It takes more than a little bit of imagination for me to image waking up in a future so different than when I left the present. Big Mike has some good points. Buck Rogers did pretty good for himself waking up 500 years in the future. Isn’t science fiction great. What was just science fiction to Jules Vern is science today. So anything is possible if we only imagine. Life really is grand.

By: Jerad Kaliher

Jerad Kaliher — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:05:48 +0000

@Oren, that was one of the books that really stirred a lot of questions in me. But why should be presuppose that the future will be something alien and haunting to us?

As someone who is constantly looking into the future I guess I would be in awe at all that happened and would become a bit of a historian for a while before looking forward again.

By: Oren

Oren — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:45:32 +0000

And after you’ll wake up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleeper_Awakes

By: Jerad Kaliher

Jerad Kaliher — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:46:19 +0000

@BikeMike: Those are all interesting points. According to law you would in fact be legally dead, meaning that the IRS would have no claim to your income or lack-there-of unless the tax law was radically modified.

I think that as far as marketable skills go your right. If I do have a chance of coming out of the deep freeze in 250 years I may have very little to offer society. Unless I am able to learn quickly I’ll be left in the dust.

That is why so much controversy surrounds the ethics of these types of procedures. But just like I said before I’m more than happy to still give it a whirl. It’s a little bleak to think that you couldn’t adapt to another age. I guess I’m just more of an optimist in that regard.

By: BigMike

BigMike — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:05:03 +0000

Sorry to burst everyones bubble but the two of you have over looked several ginormous blunders in yall’s “theory of the thaw”. 1. you have been declared legally dead, try getting a drivers licence now that there is a death certificate on file. 2. Tax evasion, the IRS is going to want to know why you have not been paying taxes these last 250 years. 3. lack of marketable skills, if you brought back a cave man right now (which is in fact what you are going to be to future humans) he can not flip burgers or drive a car. I will not have any marketable skills as right now I am an X-ray tech and in the future there will be tricorders and the doctors operate them themselves (I seen it on StarTrek). Haven’t yall seen Futurama, look at how worthless Fry is!

By: Jerad Kaliher

Jerad Kaliher — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 05:40:37 +0000

@Bill, just like I said I would much rather go kicking and screaming. Some people surprisingly have ethical and moral issues with this procedure. The one that was highlighted in all the courts was the Ted Williams trial. Personally I see it as a mute point. But then again that might be because I believe in this world as the last chance to make any sort of a difference.

By: Wild Bill

Wild Bill — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 20:18:39 +0000

I’m with you on this one Jerad, I told my wife and kids, “As long as you can tape a pencil to my forehead so I can bang away on a keyboard I want to live!” I see absolutely no risk in being frozen after death for the chance to live again someday.