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What is your opinion about this? Is it right to freeze a body after death? Do you think this is cheating death? Will you consider doing this?
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I'd be much happier with a brain transplant into a cloned body. And, hell, maybe at some point we'll start getting good at correcting God's innumerable mistakes in our design with each iteration.
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Also, Suki, I'm presuming you're mentioning God with an element of sarcasm...because it doesn't make much sense for you to believe in God only to blame him for our imperfections, then revert to atheism whenever it's convenient.
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Also they should spend more money on much more important things. A "pod" at a cryogenics center costs a ton of money to buy (I heard up to $120 thousand, and thats just after death). Plus they are having a ton of problems getting it straightened out as it is: problems about freezing the body safely.
I personally would never do it.
Religious views on the subject is welcome :D
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Astute.Mute Monk wrote:Also, Suki, I'm presuming you're mentioning God with an element of sarcasm.
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Sarcasm Combo. +1 to multiplier.Tsukatu wrote:Astute.Mute Monk wrote:Also, Suki, I'm presuming you're mentioning God with an element of sarcasm.
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IdiocracyTunco wrote:I saw this in a movie (I don't remember the name of it) where the scientists done this thing and after 200 years the guy and the woman came out the capsules or whatever and it turns out to be they are the smartest persons in the world at the moment because the average human intelligence dropped in considerable amounts.
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Futurama did the same thing, but their solution was to freeze themselves further. (The Cryonic Woman)rennaT wrote:I liked Transmet's take on this. People get frozen. People wake up hundreds of years in the future. People can't cope.
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Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahhahahaahahahaaa. So sadly ironic.Tunco wrote:I saw this in a movie (I don't remember the name of it) where the scientists done this thing and after 200 years the guy and the woman came out the capsules or whatever and it turns out to be they are the smartest persons in the world at the moment because the average human intelligence dropped in considerable amounts.
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I agree, but for the sake of my curiosity:Tsukatu wrote: I wouldn't want to be cryogenically frozen for the same reason I'd rather die than wake up from a 20+ year coma: getting my bearings again would be an extreme effort for very little profit.
What if tomorrow you're in a car accident and paralyzed from the waste down. In the future there may be a cure, would you then consider Cryonics?
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Transmet is exactly why I said what I said. :)rennaT wrote:I liked Transmet's take on this. People get frozen. People wake up hundreds of years in the future. People can't cope.
No, I'd go through conventional treatment that modern medicine can provide rather than have myself killed in the hope that they can resurrect me later with no complications and fix me using a slightly less inconvenient method. I'm just not a fan of the "make it somebody else's problem" ideology behind the whole idea.Blackson wrote:What if tomorrow you're in a car accident and paralyzed from the waste down. In the future there may be a cure, would you then consider Cryonics?
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I don't think killing yourself for cryogenic means is what it means =/
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Dude, are you joking? Transmet is amazing. I've been considering another re-reading of Transmet in its entirety in the summer.SlappyMcGee wrote:Oh, man, Tsukatu likes Transmetropolitan? You have so many layers. :D
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Tsukatu wrote:Dude, are you joking? Transmet is amazing. I've been considering another re-reading of Transmet in its entirety in the summer.SlappyMcGee wrote:Oh, man, Tsukatu likes Transmetropolitan? You have so many layers. :D
I have original issues and paperback editions and intend to get the Ultimate edition when it releases.
In the fear of derailing the thread entirely, what is your favorite arc? We're allowed to do this because we're admins.
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Ha, which do you think?SlappyMcGee wrote:In the fear of derailing the thread entirely, what is your favorite arc? We're allowed to do this because we're admins.
Other than #6, though, the ones I've enjoyed the most were the ones that were disconnected from the plot for the most part and spun off as their own musings on various things. Although I do also enjoy the more overtly cyberpunk issues in the same flavor as the one in which he covered the riot. 'Fraid it's been too long for me to remember many details about them to identify them, though.
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If we've fully comprehended space flight by then, it may not be that big of a deal, but then again it may, seeing as how Earth is an exceptionally rare example of a garden world, or someshit. Or maybe there are garden worlds scattered all throughout the cosmos, and when (or if) we develop FTL travel we'll be dumping people all along the milky way like nobody's business.
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Yeah. I mean, if there's one thing that a lot of people need to do, it's get old and die so the rest of us can have some space.Might wrote:There's the whole issue of overpopulation, how our atmosphere can't handle that many people, blah blah blah, and, to me, making people stop aging is a bad idea. Prolonging there lives, even, isn't that good of an idea in my book, because eventually, we'll run out of space for all the people.
But seriously, the reasoning behind your argument is poor at best, not to mention the fact that overpopulation is a current problem, not a future problem. Please re-evaluate the situation.
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